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THE BATTALION
Friday, May!
Jackson executed for rape, murdeiU^
iday. May 5. 2000
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — After a lengthy final
statement, a twice-paroled bank robber and burglar
who lied from an Austin halfway house was execut
ed Thursday evening for abducting, raping and fa
tally 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 arrest
ed driving her car and was carrying her automated
bank teller card.
He claimed the two were friends.
“1 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 whis
tled and sputtered. Just after he slipped into un
consciousness, thunder rumbled outside the
Huntsville Unit.
The time of death was 6:24 p.m., 11 minutes after
the lethal dose began.
“We’re very grateful to the state of Texas for hav-
“1 watch people die every day,” he said,
this was very humane.... It’s hard in our society to
anybody to death as violently as they puttheirvic
to death. It’s enough that he’s put to death.”
But lie added that the electric chair, OldSpj state Supreme
“J cannot show remorse for
something I did not do.... ”
would have “put on a better show.”
Jackson is the 13th condemned Texas initial of Oregon’s wc
— Tommy Ray Jackson
death row inmate
ing the death penalty,... to the people who persevered
after 16 years to obtain this judgment,” Robison said.
“It’s somewhat reminiscent of my affair with Rita
Hayworth back in the ’40s,” he said of Jackson’s
claim of a relationship with his daughter, a claim he
referred to as a fantasy. “It would have been the ulti
mate odd couple.”
Robison, an oncologist, said he had no difficulty
watching Jackson die..
receive lethal injection this year and the firs!of
en scheduled for this month. Two more prisoner
set to die next week.
Evidence showed Jackson and a compan
James Clary, disabled an alarm at an east At ow 'j' n g ^ ^se
halfway house where both were sent following g-, e 0
parole from prison and wound up on the Univei Du ^ c h ance 0 f
of Texas campus.
Robison, an engineering student fromlerreHi
hid., was emerging late at night from a buildingni chologist to te:
she had gone to retrieve some notes when shews
ducted, forced to withdraw money from herta damage, the h
ATM machine, raped in her ear and driven non
the city to a rural area of Williamson County. Sk
shot once in the head with a .25-caliber pistolli
son rented from an Austin street vendor.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hoping to link
George W. Bush to the gun lobby, a gun control
group is airing a new TV ad featuring tape of a
National Rilie Association (NRA) official tout
ing its clout in a potential Bush White House.
“If we win we’ll have a president... where
we work out of their office,” Kayne Robinson,
the NRA first vice president, tells a gathering
in footage used by Handgun Control Inc.
The group calculates that voters will be
less likely to support Republican Bush — and
more likely to back Democrat A1 Gore, a gun
control advocate
governor’s pro
gun views.
The Gore
campaign was
thrilled with the
NRA tape, with
spokesperson
Chris Lehane
calling it “the
proverbial smok
ing gun.”
“George W.
Bush is carrying
the NRA’s leg-
if they know the Texas
“If there is a Republican administration in
2001, there will be a much more favorable view
of an American's right to keep and bear firearms
than there currently is,” said Del fay, president
of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
The ad says Bush signed a law that al
lows concealed weapons to be carried, “in
churches, nursing homes, even amusement
parks.” Actually, the laws bans concealed
weapons from such places, but Bush signed
follow-up legislation saying the law can only
of dollars on the ad buy.
The group obtained the Robinson clip
from a videotape
"Neither the NRA nor
any special interest
group sets Governor
Bush's agenda.”
— Scott McClellan
Governor Bush spokesperson
purchased txom
the NRA Website,
and NRA officials
did not back off
their views that a
Bush presidency
would be good for
their issue.
“I want tell you
a piece of news that
I just don’t think
that you probably
knew before,”
islative ammo hag but is trying to conceal
it,” he said.
The Bush campaign said that’s not true.-
“Neither the NRA nor any special interest
group sets Governor Bush’s agenda,” said
Bush spokesperson Scott McClellan.
Meanwhile, negotiations have broken
down between gunmakers and 31 cities that
have sued them in an attempt to hold gun man
ufacturers liable for gun violence, accusing
them of failing to use safety features.
A gun industry representative, Robert
Delfay, said today that gunmakers don’t want
the Clinton administration, which has threatened
a federal suit of its own, to be part of the talks.
Robinson said. “We like George Bush better
than A1 Gore.”
The comment about working out of the
White House, he said, was a response to
the Clinton administration, where the gun
control advocates have had found tremen
dous support.
“Handgun control and he anti-gun people
have had literally unlimited access to the
White House ... working right out of the of
fice,” said Robinson, who also chairs the Iowa
Republican Party. Reaching for his Iowa roots,
he said the gun control people have been like
a giant pig at the state fair while the pro-gun
side is just a “poor little duck.”
FORT WORTH (AP) —
Chaplains’ efforts to exorcise a
demon from an inmate violated
security regulations at a North
Texas jail,' according to a pub
lished report today.
Sheriff’s documents obtained
Wednesday by the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram show that two
chaplains breached security
when they took the prisoner to an
isolated area of the Tarrant Coun
ty Jail and began commanding
Satan to “leave this man’s body”
in an exorcismlike ritual.
The reports show the jail min
isters violated safety rules by re
moving the inmate, 'who is
charged with sexually assaulting
a child, from his cell without no
tifying the shift commander. The
ceremony was so noisy that it was
distracting, they contended.
“1 am requesting this inci
dent be reviewed by jail com
mand staff,” wrote sheriff’s
Capt. Dan West.
Guards who heard the ritual
about 8:30 a.m. Sunday in the
county jail’s Green Bay unit be
lieved that the “inmate was as
saulting the chaplains” and
rushed to the scene, according to
witness statements and interoffice
memos filed with the Tarrant
County Sheriff’s Department as
part of an internal investigation.
The commotion, which the
guards described as “loud and dis
ruptive,” involved an inmate sit
ting upright on a table, according
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prisoner’s forehead.
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times, then started speakk
language that was unknown
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hand and had his head bow
apparently in prayer, accord!
to I iickey’s report.
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jail’s Green Bay unit, local
near Interstate 35W andlw
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walked in on the cerenmy
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with this type of process and
not know what the moral oris
ramifications might be fori®
rupting such a procedure,”m
Ft. Gayle Gray.
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Faries, a paid chaplain wii
Restorative Justice
after the ceremony,
that what 1 had observed was
tally unacceptable; it appeared
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