Jerry Buck Inman has admitted that he raped and murdered Clemson University student Tiffany Marie Souers in May 2006.

This week he will learn his sentence for those crimes.

The 37-year-old Inman will face a judge at a sentencing hearing to begin today at 9 a.m. at the Pickens County Courthouse in the city of Pickens, said Marcia Barker, spokeswoman for 13th Circuit Solicitor Bob Ariail’s office, on Friday. The hearing could last more than one day, Barker said.

Inman could face the death penalty for his crimes, and a defense psychiatrist testified at a hearing in August that a death sentence was what Inman wanted.

“He wishes to die for what he’s done,” said Dr. Donna Schwartz-Watts, a forensic psychiatrist with the University of South Carolina. “He has consistently stated that.”

Authorities revealed at an Aug. 19 hearing that Inman had admitted shortly after his June 2006 arrest to raping and strangling the 20-year-old engineering student from Ladue, Mo., and revealed his handwritten confession.

Inman acknowledged the truth of his confessions during questioning at the hearing.

Souers’ body was discovered in her Central apartment by her roommate on the afternoon of May 26, 2006.

Inman acknowledged having seen Souers outside her apartment the day before while “looking for some place to rob,” and had returned and entered through a patio door around 1 a.m.

He denied going there to kill her, but said he did because he knew she would recognize him. He strangled her with a bikini top, which was left around her neck.

According to Ariail, Inman tried to use Souers’ automated teller machine card six times at two banks in the days after Souers’ murder but lacked the correct personal identification number.

Inman was arrested about two weeks after the murder, near his mother’s home in Dandridge, Tenn.

Authorities have said his DNA matched evidence samples taken from Souers’ apartment.

Inman, who finished the eighth grade and had worked transiently in construction, had been out of prison roughly nine months at the time he murdered Souers. He had spent about 18 years in North Carolina and Florida prisons for rapes he committed as a teen.

He also currently faces charges in relation to the attempted rape of a 24-year-old woman in Rainsville, Ala., and the rape of a 28-year-old woman in Sevierville, Tenn., crimes authorities say he committed just days before the Souers murder.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.