Gary Gilmore
Gary Gilmore
Gary Mark Gilmorewas an American criminal who gained international notoriety for demanding the implementation of his death sentence for two murders he committed 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth4 December 1940
CountryUnited States of America