By David Schwartz
Reuters
PHOENIX — An Arizona judge on Monday ordered convicted murderer Jodi Arias to pay about $30,000 to the family of the ex-boyfriend she shot and stabbed to death in 2008, court officials said.
Judge Sherry Stephens granted the amount to help cover expenses incurred by five of victim Travis Alexander’s siblings, making the ruling during a restitution hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix.
Arias, 34, waived her right to appear at the hearing. She was sentenced in April to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of Alexander, who was found slumped in a shower at his Phoenix-area home.
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