Raymond Jones was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Su Van Dang
According to court documents Raymond Jones would break into the residence of Su Van Dang. Jones would beat the man to death before robbing his home
Raymond Jones would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Raymond Jones would be executed by lethal injection on September 1 1999
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Raymond Jones Case
On June 18, 1988, the police of Port Arthur, Texas discovered the soot covered body of Su Van Dang, who had died of multiple stab wounds to the chest and body. After learning that the victim had been playing dominoes with a group of people the night of his murder, one of the victim’s neighbors identified Raymond Jones as one of the people who had been with the victim the night he was murdered. Jones was arrested based on a warrant issued by a justice of the peace.1
After giving the Miranda warnings, one of the police officers asked Jones if he knew what his arrest was about, to which he responded, “some Vietnamese, huh?” Jones then said: “yea, I did it.” He then directed the officers to his sisters’ house where they recovered a stereo that had been taken from the victim’s house the night of the murder. Jones was arraigned within an hour and a half and given a formal advisory of his rights. Two hours after his arrest, he signed a typewritten confession, the first of two statements admitted at trial; the second was made the next afternoon.2
Jones’ written confessions relate that he accompanied Su Dang to his house after the dominoes game. Upon seeing a stereo that he wanted in the corner of the victim’s living room, Jones began to beat and stab the victim. Su Dang pleaded for a bath and Jones tried to drown him in his bathtub. Jones then began searching for money and, finding none, put the victim in a closet, tied him with an electrical cord, poured kerosene on him and on the floor around him and set it afire. Jones then left the house.
Jones was charged and tried for capital murder. The jury found him guilty of the capital offense and a death sentence was imposed. The sentence was affirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas3 ; a writ of certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court.4
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/171/270/557669/