Title: Gary Gilmore
Content: that I die and I accept that." During the time Gilmore was on death row awaiting his execution, he attempted suicide twice; the first time on November 16 after the first stay was issued, and again one month later on December 16. Gilmore was executed on January 17, 1977, at 8:07 a.m. by firing squad at Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. The night before, Gilmore had requested an all-night gathering of friends and family at the prison mess hall. On the evening before his execution, he was served a last meal of steak, potatoes, milk and coffee but consumed

Title: Gary Gilmore
Content: Gary Gilmore executed on television." Gary Gilmore Gary Mark Gilmore (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 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 death penalty statutes being deemed

Title: Gary Gilmore
Content: Gary Gilmore Gary Mark Gilmore (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 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 death penalty statutes being deemed as "cruel and unusual" punishment,

Title: Gary Gilmore
Content: 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. Gary Mark Gilmore was born in McCamey, Texas, on December 4, 1940, the second of four sons, to Frank and Bessie Gilmore. The other sons were Frank, Jr., Gaylen, and the writer and music journalist Mikal Gilmore. Frank

Title: The Executioner's Song
Content: execution performed as soon as possible. He and Baker agreed to a suicide pact that resulted in each of them suffering temporary comas in November. On January 17, 1977, after appeals filed by lawyers on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (in defiance of Gilmore's wishes) were rejected by the US Supreme Court, Gilmore was executed by the method he chose: firing squad. He was the first person to be judicially executed in the United States since Luis Monge was executed in the Colorado gas chamber on June 2, 1967. Based almost entirely on interviews with the family and

Question: What were Gary Gilmore's final words before his execution in 1977?
Answer: Let's do it