Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Gary Mark Gilmore (born Faye Robert Coffman; December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international attention for demanding the implementation of his death sentence for two murders he had admitted to committing in Utah.
On January 17, 1977, Gilmore is executed by firing squad, as he chose. His body is then cremated after parts are extracted for donation in accordance with his wishes. He was the first person to be judicially executed in the United States after the execution of Luis Monge in Colorado on June 2, 1967.
The Executioner's Song (1979) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events related to the execution of Gary Gilmore for murder by the state of Utah. The title of the book may be a play on "The Lord High Executioner's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.
They were later executed in 1987 and 1992, respectively. On January 17, 1977, Utah became the first state to execute a prisoner after the moratorium ended: Gary Gilmore was executed by a firing squad, [11] having selected that method over hanging.
Dan Wieden, the ad-executive who came up with the slogan, told Dezeen Magazine he got the idea from Gary Gilmore - a murderer from Portland, Oregon where Nike's headquarters is located today.
January 17 – In the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the United States, Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah. [4] January 19 Snow falls in Miami, Florida (despite its ordinarily tropical climate) for the only time in its history.
Jones had experienced a maximum-security prison once before—Utah State Prison in Draper—when he played Gary Gilmore in The Executioner’s Song in 1982. He felt comfortable at Stateville ...
Since 1960 there have been four executions by firing squad, all in Utah: The 1960 execution of James W. Rodgers, Gary Gilmore's execution in 1977, and John Albert Taylor in 1996, who chose a firing squad for his execution, according to The New York Times, "to make a statement that Utah was sanctioning murder". [67]