Serial killing suspect Jeremy Bryan Jones to be sentenced

<p>Sentencing is scheduled this morning in Mobile, Alabama, for serial killing suspect Jeremy Bryan Jones for his capital murder conviction in the 2004 rape and shooting death of a Mobile County woman while he was high on drugs.</p><p>The jury had the option of recommending life in prison without parole over execution by lethal injection but voted in October in recommendation of the death penalty.</p><p>Circuit Judge Charles Graddick is NOT bound by the jury's recommended penalty.</p><p>The 32-year-old Jones of Miami, Oklahoma, was convicted of rape, burglary, sexual abuse and kidnapping during capital murder. The very clears the way for his possible prosecution in separate killings in Georgia and Louisiana.</p><p>Investigators say he may be linked to 10 other killings.</p><p>In statements to sheriff's investigators, Jones admitted killing 44-yar-old Lisa Marie Nichols on September 17th, 2004 while high on methamphetamines. In his trial testimony, however, he blamed the victim's neighbor for the murder, but prosecutors punched holes in that account. The neighbor died in August.</p><p>Jones is charged with murder in the death of Amanda Greenwell, a 16-year-old in Douglasville, Georgia, whose remains were found in April 2004.</p><p>Police have said he also is a suspect in the disappearance of Patrice Endres in April 2004 from her hair salon in Forsyth County.</p>