S.A. rapper Ray Jasper executed

Ray Jasper, seen in an undated courtesy photo provided Saturday March 15, 2014, by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, March 19, 2014 for the Nov. 29, 1998 killing of 33-year-old David Alejandro. less Ray Jasper, seen in an undated courtesy photo provided Saturday March 15, 2014, by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, March 19, 2014 for the Nov. 29, 1998 killing ... more Photo: Associated Press Photo: Associated Press Image 1 of / 101 Caption Close S.A. rapper Ray Jasper executed 1 / 101 Back to Gallery

HUNTSVILLE — Ray Jasper, who was convicted 14 years ago of killing a man he intended to rob of recording equipment by slashing his throat, has been executed.

Officials pronounced Jasper dead at 6:31 p.m. Wednesday, after a lethal dose of pentobarbital was injected into his system.

Of the three men found guilty of David Alejandro's November 1998 slaying, Jasper, 33, was the only one to receive a death sentence.

Co-defendants Steve Russell and Douglas Williams are each serving life sentences. Russell took a plea deal days after a jury sentenced Jasper to death and Williams was sentenced to life by a jury six months later.

No one from Jasper's family was in Huntsville Wednesday to witness the execution. No one from the Alejandro family, who are against the death penalty, attended either — instead opting to spend the evening together in San Antonio.

During his capital murder trial in 2000, Jasper, a local rapper, admitted to using a kitchen knife to cut David Alejandro's throat during what was supposed to be a recording session at the victim's studio.

But Jasper also insisted that he wasn't responsible for Alejandro's death. It was instead the 25 stab wounds inflicted by Williams and Russell that caused the death, he asserted on the witness stand.

In a seven-page letter Jasper recently sent to Gawker.com that he has described as his final statement, he continued to deflect responsibility.

“I'm on death row and yet I didn't commit the act of murder,” he said in the letter, which has been touted by Gawker.com for having been read 1.7 million times.

He is the third inmate executed in Texas this year.

Read the full story at ExpressNews.com or in the Thursday edition of the San Antonio Express-News.

mcasady@express-news.net

Twitter: @MichelleCasady