Convicted boyfriend killer Jodi Arias has been granted permission to revisit the home where she murdered her former lover in 2008.

Back in May 2013, Arias was found guilty of the first-degree murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, who was killed in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008.

According to medical examiners, the 34-year-old waitress stabbed the 30-year-old California salesman 27 times, primarily in the back, torso and heart. She also slit his throat from ear to ear, nearly decapitating him, and shot him in the face before she dragged his bloodied corpse to the shower where she left him crumpled over. In total, the killing was done in a little less than two minutes.

Because jurors failed to reach an unanimous decision on her sentencing, Arias' will go back on trial on Sept. 29 and a jury will determine whether or not she should be sentenced to death, life in prison or life with a chance of release after serving 25 years.

Arias, who has decided to act as her own attorney in the upcoming penalty phase trial, apparently petitioned the court for access inside the East Queensborough home where she killed Alexander. Her request was recently granted by a judge, reports AZ Family.

Last week, Arias also recieved her request to delay her retrial. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens pushed the start date back three weeks from Sept. 8 to Sept. 29, said a court spokeswoman, according to Reuters.

Arias petitioned the court to postpone the retrial because she said she ran into obstacles while trying to interview an expert witness from her prison cell.

Judge Stephens, however, denied Arias' defense attorney, Kirk Nurmi, his request to resign from her death penalty trial.

Nurmi, who has made several motions to drop Arias due to their ongoing tension, filed a recent motion asking the judge to let him resign from the case since Arias will be her own legal rep, while he was assigned to be her legal adviser. He also cited his original attempt to withdraw and Arias' repeated efforts to have him fired.

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