Jones is also suspected of killing Forsyth County hairdresser Patrice Endres in 2004.
Circuit Judge Charles Graddick called Jones ``a danger to civilized society'' as he ordered him to die by lethal injection.
Before the sentence was read, Jones told the court, ``God will have the final say.''
A jury voted 10-2 in October in recommending the death penalty for Jones, who was convicted of capital murder in the 2004 rape and shooting death of a Mobile County woman while he was high on drugs.
Graddick wasn't bound by the jury's recommendation.
In calling for the death sentence, Alabama Attorney General Troy King urged the judge to consider the ``blood-chilling crime.''
``He targeted his prey like any predator,'' King said, and has never shown ``even an ounce of remorse.''
Defense attorney Greg Hughes urged Graddick to impose life without parole, not death, saying Jones suffered ``extreme mental and emotional problems,'' including long-term drug addiction that should be a mitigating factor.
Jones, 32, of Miami, Okla., was convicted Oct. 26 of rape, burglary, sexual abuse and kidnapping during capital murder of Lisa Marie Nichols, 44, of rural Turnerville on Sept. 17, 2004.
In statements to sheriff's investigators, Jones admitted killing Nichols while high on methamphetamines. During the trial, he blamed the victim's neighbor for the murder, but prosecutors punched holes in that account. The neighbor died in August.
The conviction cleared the way for his possible prosecution in separate slayings in Georgia and New Orleans.
Investigators say he may be linked to 10 other killings.
At the time of his Alabama arrest on Sept. 21, 2004, Jones, who was using an alias, was wanted in Oklahoma for rape and failure to register in 1997 as a sex offender.
Jones is charged with murder in the death of Amanda Greenwell, a 16-year-old in Douglasville, Ga., whose remains were found in April 2004, and Katherine Collins, a 45-year-old New Orleans woman. He has been described by investigators as a serial killing suspect, who could be linked to at least 10 other murders.
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