Deanna's Daydreamer
06-14-2009, 10:35 PM
Dear taxpaying women of Alabama,
we, the STATE of Alabama, would like to inform you that the pest control which was needed in the state's penal population was indeed performed recently.
One Jack Trawick will no longer need you... the hardworking, taxpaying WOMEN of Alabama... to provide him with free medical care, free dental care, free vision care, free legal help, free postal usage, three hot meals a day, air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter. Nor will Mr. Trawick need to have water, regular showers, linens and towels.
Indeed, ladies,
Jack Trawick
will never need anything.... AT ALL.... EVER.... AGAIN.
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Killer Trawick executed
By Bob Johnson
The Associated Press
ATMORE -- An Alabama death row inmate who taunted his victim's mother with grisly, graphic drawings and writings on the Internet apologized shortly before he was executed Thursday at Holman Prison.
The inmate, 62-year-old Jack Trawick, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. He was executed by lethal injection for the 1992 abduction and slaying of Stephanie Gach, a 21-year-old college student in Birmingham.
Trawick had often appeared non-repentent and brash over the years, but with his last words asked for forgiveness.
"I want to apologize to the people I hurt. I ask for their forgiveness. I don't deserve it, but I do ask for it," Trawick said in a steady voice.
As he made the statement, he lay still on a hospital gurney looking at prison warden Grant Culliver, but not toward the witness room where family members of his victims were sitting.
Stephanie Gach's sister, Heather Gach, said she couldn't believe that Trawick finally apologized.
"You could have knocked me over with a feather. I was expecting him to say something derogatory. That did make it a little better for him to ask for forgiveness," Heather Gach said.
Trawick also was convicted of the 1992 killing of Frances Aileen Pruitt. Pruitt's sister, Donna Middlebrooks, said she was shocked by Trawick's apology.
"More than anybody can ever know. I think he was very sincere. I could tell by the way he said it," said Middlebrooks, who was separated from Trawick by the glass window of the witness room. "I wish I could have told him that I forgave him a long time ago. I have prayed for him to find peace."
After making his statement, Trawick lay still for a moment before speaking quietly to prison chaplain Chris Summers, who was standing near the gurney. Summers walked over and held Trawick's hand briefly.
Trawick then closed his eyes, appeared to gasp for breath a few times and then seemed to fall asleep.
Trawick was the fifth inmate executed in Alabama this year.
Trawick filed no motions to try to stop the execution in the final days.
Trawick drew wide notice several years ago after he described how he beat, strangled and stabbed Gach and killed other women in writings posted on the Internet by a pen pal. He even taunted the victim's mother, Mary Kate Gach, by name.
The Alabama Legislature passed a law this year aimed at Trawick that prohibits inmates from using such postings to profit from their crimes. Trawick did not sell his artwork and writings, which are still online.
"We've fought and we've fought but it comes down to the First Amendment," Mary Gach said Wednesday.
Mary Gach did not attend the execution, but in a statement released by prison officials she said she was thankful justice had been delivered for her daughter.
"We know this will not bring her back to us nor will it lessen our grief. Nothing will ever compensate for our loss. My memories of what was done to her will never fade, but I am consoled by the knowledge that this monster will never again harm anyone," Mary Gach said in the statement.
Trawick was in a good mood Thursday as he spent the day meeting with family and friends in a visitation area at the prison, prisons spokesman Brian Corbett said. He said Trawick had been in a good mood all week.
The stocky Trawick ate his last meal at about 3 p.m. Thursday. He had requested fried chicken, french fries, onion soup and rolls.
Trawick gave some of his belongings Thursday to Tod Bohannon, who operates a Web Site that has sold the belongings of serial killers. He gave Bohannon a Bible, a dictionary, a wallet, a television set, assorted pictures and cosmetics, Corbett said.
Trawick gave a cousin, Mary Anne Pearson, a Bible and two pictures, Corbett said. He said prison officials would examine the items given away by Trawick to make sure there was nothing inappropriate.
Trawick was moved earlier in the week from his cell on death row to a holding cell adjacent to the execution chamber.
Trawick was sentenced to die in 1994 for Gach's killing and has been on death row at Holman for 15 years. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for Pruitt's murder.
He also confessed to the 1972 killing of a Birmingham-area teenager, but was never tried in that case.
Prosecutors said Trawick abducted Gach in the parking lot of her apartment complex on Oct. 9, 1992 in Irondale, a suburb east of Birmingham. She was strangled, stabbed through the heart and beaten with a hammer. Her body was found the next day beside an isolated road south of Birmingham.
Stephanie Gach was a student at Jefferson State Community College and had attended the University of Montevallo, where she studied psychology.
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"Trawick, 62, who also had claimed to have committed another Birmingham area murder and two in the Pacific northwest"
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/06/jack_trawick.html
we, the STATE of Alabama, would like to inform you that the pest control which was needed in the state's penal population was indeed performed recently.
One Jack Trawick will no longer need you... the hardworking, taxpaying WOMEN of Alabama... to provide him with free medical care, free dental care, free vision care, free legal help, free postal usage, three hot meals a day, air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter. Nor will Mr. Trawick need to have water, regular showers, linens and towels.
Indeed, ladies,
Jack Trawick
will never need anything.... AT ALL.... EVER.... AGAIN.
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Killer Trawick executed
By Bob Johnson
The Associated Press
ATMORE -- An Alabama death row inmate who taunted his victim's mother with grisly, graphic drawings and writings on the Internet apologized shortly before he was executed Thursday at Holman Prison.
The inmate, 62-year-old Jack Trawick, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. He was executed by lethal injection for the 1992 abduction and slaying of Stephanie Gach, a 21-year-old college student in Birmingham.
Trawick had often appeared non-repentent and brash over the years, but with his last words asked for forgiveness.
"I want to apologize to the people I hurt. I ask for their forgiveness. I don't deserve it, but I do ask for it," Trawick said in a steady voice.
As he made the statement, he lay still on a hospital gurney looking at prison warden Grant Culliver, but not toward the witness room where family members of his victims were sitting.
Stephanie Gach's sister, Heather Gach, said she couldn't believe that Trawick finally apologized.
"You could have knocked me over with a feather. I was expecting him to say something derogatory. That did make it a little better for him to ask for forgiveness," Heather Gach said.
Trawick also was convicted of the 1992 killing of Frances Aileen Pruitt. Pruitt's sister, Donna Middlebrooks, said she was shocked by Trawick's apology.
"More than anybody can ever know. I think he was very sincere. I could tell by the way he said it," said Middlebrooks, who was separated from Trawick by the glass window of the witness room. "I wish I could have told him that I forgave him a long time ago. I have prayed for him to find peace."
After making his statement, Trawick lay still for a moment before speaking quietly to prison chaplain Chris Summers, who was standing near the gurney. Summers walked over and held Trawick's hand briefly.
Trawick then closed his eyes, appeared to gasp for breath a few times and then seemed to fall asleep.
Trawick was the fifth inmate executed in Alabama this year.
Trawick filed no motions to try to stop the execution in the final days.
Trawick drew wide notice several years ago after he described how he beat, strangled and stabbed Gach and killed other women in writings posted on the Internet by a pen pal. He even taunted the victim's mother, Mary Kate Gach, by name.
The Alabama Legislature passed a law this year aimed at Trawick that prohibits inmates from using such postings to profit from their crimes. Trawick did not sell his artwork and writings, which are still online.
"We've fought and we've fought but it comes down to the First Amendment," Mary Gach said Wednesday.
Mary Gach did not attend the execution, but in a statement released by prison officials she said she was thankful justice had been delivered for her daughter.
"We know this will not bring her back to us nor will it lessen our grief. Nothing will ever compensate for our loss. My memories of what was done to her will never fade, but I am consoled by the knowledge that this monster will never again harm anyone," Mary Gach said in the statement.
Trawick was in a good mood Thursday as he spent the day meeting with family and friends in a visitation area at the prison, prisons spokesman Brian Corbett said. He said Trawick had been in a good mood all week.
The stocky Trawick ate his last meal at about 3 p.m. Thursday. He had requested fried chicken, french fries, onion soup and rolls.
Trawick gave some of his belongings Thursday to Tod Bohannon, who operates a Web Site that has sold the belongings of serial killers. He gave Bohannon a Bible, a dictionary, a wallet, a television set, assorted pictures and cosmetics, Corbett said.
Trawick gave a cousin, Mary Anne Pearson, a Bible and two pictures, Corbett said. He said prison officials would examine the items given away by Trawick to make sure there was nothing inappropriate.
Trawick was moved earlier in the week from his cell on death row to a holding cell adjacent to the execution chamber.
Trawick was sentenced to die in 1994 for Gach's killing and has been on death row at Holman for 15 years. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for Pruitt's murder.
He also confessed to the 1972 killing of a Birmingham-area teenager, but was never tried in that case.
Prosecutors said Trawick abducted Gach in the parking lot of her apartment complex on Oct. 9, 1992 in Irondale, a suburb east of Birmingham. She was strangled, stabbed through the heart and beaten with a hammer. Her body was found the next day beside an isolated road south of Birmingham.
Stephanie Gach was a student at Jefferson State Community College and had attended the University of Montevallo, where she studied psychology.
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"Trawick, 62, who also had claimed to have committed another Birmingham area murder and two in the Pacific northwest"
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/06/jack_trawick.html