By Michael Graczyk- Associated Press     Posted: May 4, 2000

                      HUNTSVILLE --
After a lengthy final statement, a twice-paroled bank robber and burglar who fled from an Austin halfway house was executed Thursday evening for abducting, raping  and fatally shooting a University of Texas student more than 16 years ago.

Tommy Ray Jackson, 43, insisted to the end that he was innocent of the Nov. 17, 1983,
murder of 24-year-old Rosalind Robison although he was arrested driving her car and was carrying her automated bank teller card.

 He claimed the two were friends.

 ``I cannot show any remorse for something I did not do,'' he said before being injected with
the lethal dose of drugs. ``If I did, I'd be faking, and there's nothing fake about me. I'm at
peace. Please believe me. I figure that what I'm dying for is for what I've done in my past,
not for killing Roz.''

 He looked directly at her father through a window a few feet away and said,
``I called her Roz.''

There was no reaction from Dr. Roger Robison.

 As the drugs began to take effect, Jackson whistled and sputtered. Just after he slipped
 into unconsciousness, thunder rumbled outside the Huntsville unit.

The time of death was 6:24 p.m.
Jackson is the 13th condemned Texas inmate to receive lethal injection this year and the first of six scheduled for this month. Two more prisoners are set to die next week.

 Evidence showed Jackson and a companion, James Clary, disabled an alarm at an east
Austin halfway house where both were sent following their parole from prison and wound up
on the University of Texas campus.

Robison, an engineering student from Terre Haute, Ind., was emerging late at night from a
building where she had gone to retrieve some notes when she was abducted, forced to
withdraw money from her bank's ATM machine, raped in her car and driven north of
the city to a rural area of Williamson County. She was shot once in the head with a
 .25-caliber pistol Jackson rented from an Austin street vendor.

  Witnesses said Jackson spent the money  freely later that night and over the weekend.
Four days later he was arrested driving her car. It wasn't until a month later that Robison's
body was found in a gravel pile.

  ``He literally put the girl on her knees, bound
her hands behind her, put the bullet through
 her head and goes to a party,'' Williamson
County District Attorney Ken Anderson, who
helped prosecute Jackson, said this week.
``He's the most cold-blooded, most evil, most
psychopathic killer I've ever seen.''

Clary, who turned 45 Wednesday, received a
 life prison term and testified against Jackson.

 When Robison failed to return home, her roomate reported her missing. Four days later,
police pulled over her car with Indiana license
 plates. Jackson was behind the wheel.

Copyright 2000, The Associated Press.

When the jury was picked I was to have my fate decided by a meteorologist,
 plumber, truck driver, housewife, store clerk, just to mention some of the 12 perspective jurors.   Notice when faced with a capital case there is a life or death situation.  Please beware hte humanity thing to do would be to have people qualified to deal with a life or death situation.

Life and death is very, very serious business, why would someone put in
the hand of an unqualified person someone life or death decision ?

When a hurricane is about to hit an area the mayor or the governor will
call out the fire department, police, road construction crew (just to name a few) to handle the situation because they are faced with human lives. Now why couldn't I have had some people that was qualified to make a decision upon my life. faced with a death penalty is a very, very serious scenario.  By having people more qualified to be on a jury when there is a life or death situation would most like have a more positive ending on the verdict that will be rendered.

What I would like to see is something like or close to having a total of 12 jurors from a law school.  Lets say they are in the 4th or graduate level of the law degree.  Now these individuals would be more qualified to know and be able to recite the law as the trial goes forth.    Unlike housewife, plumbers cooks, construction workers.     From reading the above I would like to say I was a victim of court abuse on the highest levels.  There were numerous amounts of people lying, not knowing what they were talking about.  Even officers of the law (what law) that admitted at a later hearing the did not say on the
witness stand as the same as they wrote in their report.  Not to mention in the Georgetown Sun newspaper in December 1984 the District Attorney Edward Walsh admitted to the journalist Ms. Sevay "After hearing Tommy Jacksons co-defendant take on the witness stand testifying against Jackson I have doubts as to whether I gave the death penalty to the right man. Jackson did not take the stand.

James Otis Clary made a plea bargain for a life sentence and testified against the defendent Tommy Ray Jackson.  Inmate Jackson sits on death row for a crime he did not commit.  James Clary sits on Jester IV unit for a crime he did commit.

Inmate Jackson still fighting for justice and to hopefully one day be released back into society to become once again a productive citizen.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely
Tommy Ray Jackson 

43 year old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weigh 163 pounds.  Very good sense of humor, love sports such as; football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, handball, racketball.  Callege educated: Associate Arts Degree in Behavior Psychology.  My pastimes are reading, writing, listening to Jazz music.  I consider myself able to get along with 99% of the world population.  I'm a very patient person.  I totally dislike profanity, child abuse, negativity, and disrespect.
I guarantee to answer any and all letter responding to my single request
guarantee to be totally honest at all times.  Also will be willing to discuss any and all subjects your heart desires.
Please write to me soon . . . But very soon.      Honestly Yours

                                Texecuted May 4, 2000   
                         Tommy Ray Jackson #821
                                Terrell Unit D.R
                            12002 FM  350 South
                                Livingston Texas
                                    77351  USA
 

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