Texas Death Row

Execution Scheduled for Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 6:00 pm



Death Row Inmate Ray Jasper

On November 29, 1998, Jasper and two codefendants were responsible for the death of a 33-year-old man during a robbery. The victim was a musical engineer who owned a recording studio in San Antonio and was a business partner of Jasper.

Jasper had created his own record label and had his own rap group. He went to the recording studio of the victim, walked up behind him and grabbed him by the hair and slit his throat.

The victim was then stabbed to death. Jasper covered the victim with a black sheet in order to "not have to look at him" and then began loading vehicles with the equipment inside the studio, estimated to be worth between $10,000 and $30,000.

Jasper and his codefendants made several trips taking the property from the studio, and upon returning to the scene of the crime, he was observed to be suspicious and eventually apprehended by police.

On December 2, 1998, Jasper confessed to police that he had planned the crime and recruited two accomplices. His confession describes events in detail that were later corroborated by Jasper's girlfriend, Christina Breton, police officers, security guards, and physical evidence discovered by investigators. Breton testified that several days before the commission of the crime, Jasper had told her about his plan to steal Alejandro's equipment and kill him.

During the punishment phase of the trial, the State introduced evidence of Jasper's criminal history and bad acts, beginning at age fifteen, including offenses and bad acts such as theft of a bicycle, drug possession, attempted burglary, and an incident of violence against an off-duty police officer.

...The facts of this crime were brutal and demonstrated calculated deliberation. Jasper planned well in advance the stabbing murder of someone he would later describe as "one of the nicest people [he] ever met in [his] life." He allowed Alejandro to assist him with recording for two hours, knowing he was about to kill him. As Alejandro sat unaware at the soundboard mixing a track for Jasper, Jasper pulled his head back and, taking a kitchen knife from his jacket, slit his throat from ear to ear. When that wound did not kill him, one of Jasper's accomplices joined the attack until Alejandro was dead. Alejandro suffered twenty-five stab wounds. Jasper quickly loaded equipment into the vans and instructed one stunned accomplice to hurry up and help.

tragic for life to be worth less than possessions,,,,

at least he is off the streets,,