Michael Anthony Jackson (born March 27, 1954) is an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death in 1984 for shooting and killing police officer Ken Wrede in West Covina, California in August 1983.

[3] Shortly after noon on August 31, 1983, West Covina Police Officer, 26-year-old Ken Wrede, responded to calls of an intoxicated man walking barefoot and disturbing residents.

[4] Jackson obtained a shotgun from Wrede’s patrol car and shot the officer multiple times.

During the trial, Jackson's lawyers argued that he might have been severely high, which made him not legally responsible for the murder.

On May 9, 2000, with Jackson's execution date approaching, the federal court of appeals concluded that if all available evidence had been presented during the trial's penalty phase, there was a reasonable chance that he might have received a sentence of life imprisonment.