Texas has executed a 33-year-old hip hop musician convicted of stabbing to death and robbing a music studio owner.
Ray Jasper was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital at its
death chamber in Huntsville and died at 6.31pm (11.31pm UK time)."To my family, we are one. To my beautiful daughter, the best thing that ever happened to me. I love you endlessly," Jasper wrote in his last words.
"I am you and you are me forever."
Jasper was convicted of the 1998 killing of David Alejandro, 33, who owned and operated a studio in San Antonio where musicians could be professionally recorded for a fee.
The aspiring rapper had acknowledged slitting Mr Alejandro's throat to steal equipment from the studio. But he insisted a partner was responsible for the man's fatal stab wounds.
Jasper's execution was the third this year in Texas, which puts more people to death than any other state in the US.
Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses for executions, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month, according to the AP news agency.
Major pharmaceutical companies, many based in Europe, have stopped selling pentobarbital and other substances used in lethal injections to US corrections agencies because they oppose the death penalty.
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