num_pages: 1060
description: In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years. But Gary Gilmore wanted to die, and his ensuing battle with the authorities for the right to do so made him into a world-wide celebrity - and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.
language: English
title: Executioner's Song
titlecomplete: Executioner's Song
characters: Gary Gilmore
genres: Biography, American, Mystery, Nonfiction, Literature, Classics, History, Crime, Journalism, True Crime
ratings_count: 21248
places: Utah
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover) (1980) & (Paperback)
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of R