1940 - 1977
Gary Gilmore American Criminal
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Gary Gilmore was in a relationship with Nicole Baker Barrett.
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Details
| First Name |
Gary
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| Last Name |
Gilmore
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| Birthday |
4th December, 1940
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| Birthplace |
Waco, Texas, USA
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| Died |
17th January, 1977
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| Place of Death |
Draper, Utah, United States
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| Buried |
Cremated
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Criminal
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Gary Mark Gilmore (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. After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia, he became the first person in almost ten years to be executed in the United States. These new statutes avoided the problems under the 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia, which had resulted in earlier death penalty statutes being deemed as "cruel and unusual" punishment, and therefore unconstitutional. (The Supreme Court had previously ordered all states to commute death sentences to life imprisonment after Furman v. Georgia.) Gilmore was executed by a firing squad in 1977. His life and execution were the subject of the 1979 nonfiction novel The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, and 1982 TV film of the novel starring Tommy Lee Jones as Gilmore.
