Jodi Arias Trial News Update: Arias Tweets About Arizona Prison While Awaiting Retrial, Facing Death Penalty

Although Jodi Arias is currently awaiting a retrial in which she might be sentenced with the death penalty, the convicted killer seemed more concerned about how much water the prison she's locked in wasted last week.

Arias, who is being held in a women's prison in Maricopa County, Arizona, revealed in a series of tweets that one of the toilets in the prison got stuck on flush mode for over 24 hours.

"Yesterday around 4:30 p.m. a toilet upstairs got stuck on "flush"...26 hours later, it's still flushing," she tweeted Friday night.

"I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of gallons of water wasted that makes," she added.

And finally on Saturday afternoon she wrote, "The toilet finally stopped flushing. Is the Colorado River now down to a trickle?"

The California native was convicted of first-degree murder on May 8 in the ghastly 2008 death of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix, Ariz. home. However, the same jury that found her guilty failed to reach a unanimous decision on her sentencing. As a result, a retrial will be held later this year to determine whether she should be sentenced to death, life in prison or life with a chance of release after serving 25 years.

She remains behind bars and is forbidden from accessing cell phones or computers. However, her Twitter account has remained active.

Last week, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens denied several requests motioned by her lawyers in her upcoming retrial.

In her ruling, Judge Stephens denied the defense's request for sequestration since she granted the defense's motion to ban live TV coverage of the retrial. However, she is permitting reporters to attend the proceedings in addition to one still camera photographer inside the courtroom.

"The Court finds the interests of justice do not require sequestration of the jury of the sentencing phase retrial in this case," wrote Stephens according to HLN-TV. 

In the same ruling, Stephens said Arias' lawyers had failed to prove the media glare required a change of venue. Therefore, the retrial will take place at Maricopa County Courthouse in Arizona like Arias' first trial.

Stephens also denied the defense's request to individually question potential jurors during jury selection. Instead, candidates will be questioned in groups of 10 for approximately 45 minutes. She will, however, allow individual questioning only if a dispute regarding a potential juror cannot be resolved.