Arias faces intense questioning from prosecutor

Published February 26, 2013 5:00am ET



PHOENIX (AP) — A prosecutor hammered Jodi Arias on Tuesday as he worked to poke holes in her numerous stories in the murder case against her, pointing out how she once said the victim blessed the world by his presence and then portrayed him on the witness stand as a violent, womanizing sexual deviant.

Arias has testified for 11 days about how her one-time lover, Travis Alexander, was a controlling, abusive man who persuaded her to perform raunchy sex acts, beat her, once choked her into unconsciousness and constantly berated her, calling her a “whore” and other names.

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