Arias: ‘I’ll donate my hair' If Allowed to Live

Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix. AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool

Arias: ‘I’ll donate my hair:' Jodi Arias, who was found guilty of murdering her one-time boyfriend, told jurors on May 21 that if she was not executed she would do good things in jail, including donating her hair to be made into wigs for cancer victims.

She asked jurors to not choose execution, motioning to her family and saying “please don’t do that to them,” according to ABC.

“Either way, I’m going to spend rest of my life in prison,” she said. “It will either be shortened or not. If it is shortened, the people that will be hurt the most will be my family. Please don’t do that to them. I’ve already hurt them so much, and I want everyone’s pain to stop.” 

She said that besides donating her hair for the rest of her life, she planned to help establish prison recycling programs and design T-shirts to raise money for domestic abuse victims. 

She also said she could run book clubs and teach classes to prisoners to “stimulate conversations of a higher nature.”