Texas set to execute aspiring rapper for murdering studio manager

MSN News/Reuters ^ | March 19, 2014 | Reuters

[CorporateStepsister]

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas is set to execute on Wednesday an aspiring rap musician who was convicted of slitting the throat and stabbing to death a music studio owner in San Antonio so that he could rob him of equipment.

[GeronL]

racists going to cut his rap career short

[Loyalist]

Expect nothing good of anyone called an aspiring rapper.

[Red Badger]

Guess his rap sheet is really short..................

[from occupied ga]

murder... aspiring rap musician

Isn't that what aspiring rap musicians do?

[TurboZamboni]

Aspiring corpse was more achievable.

[TurboZamboni]

now he’s an expiring rapper.

[dfwgator]

He will soon be an expiring rapper.

[Vigilanteman]

Who writes these headlines?

We're supposed to have sympathy because he was an 'aspiring rapper'?

Yeah, and I supposed we should have sympathy for Adolph Hitler because he came from a broken home and was a World War I veteran.

[dfwgator]

Dangit...two seconds.

[dfwgator]

Yeah, and I supposed we should have sympathy for Adolph Hitler because he came from a broken home and was a World War I veteran.

And he was a terrific dancer...and he could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon....TWO COATS!

[SkyDancer]

Maybe there’s a rap song about him taking the “juice” ....

[Joe 6-pack]

Don’t forget...he loved animals, too!

[humblegunner]

Texas is set to execute on Wednesday an aspiring rap musician

[a fool in paradise]

After he’s executed, his recording career is gonna be legendary. Think of his street cred.

[Junk Silver]

Back in the days of the electric chair we could have at least said that he had a “bright future”.

[JRios1968]

[a fool in paradise]

Adolph Hitler was an aspiring painter. < /Godwin >

[skinkinthegrass]

esp. elephants!

[deport]

Summary of Incident
On 11/29/98, Jasper and two co-defendants were responsible for the death of a 33-year old white male,
which took place during a robbery. The victim was a musical engineer who owned a recording studio in San
Antonio. Jasper had created his own record label and had his own rap group. Jasper went to the recording
studio of the victim. He walked up behind the victim 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."
Jasper 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.