Facts: - birth name: faye gilmore -rrb- robert coffman -lrb- later changed to gary mark - birth date: 4 december 1940 - parents: frank and bessie gilmore - states: utah - charge: armed counts -rrb- murder -lrb- 2 counts -rrb- robbery -lrb- 3 counts -rrb- assault -lrb- 2 - death date: 17 january 1977 - name: gary gilmore - death place: draper , utah , usa - birth place: mccamey , texas , usa - date: 1940 12 4 - victims: max jensen bennie bushnell , 25 - conviction status: executed on january 17 , 1977 - locations: orem provo - death cause: execution - image caption: portland police bureau mug shot - image size: 224px - image name: gary gilmore mugshot.jpg - conviction penalty: execution by firing squad - apprehended: july 21 , 1976 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of gary gilmore .
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gary mark gilmore -lrb- december 4 , 1940 -- january 17 , 1977 -rrb- was an american criminal who gained international notoriety for demanding the execution 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 , and therefore unconstitutional .-lrb- the supreme court had previously ordered all states to commute death sentences to life imprisonment after furman v. georgia . -rrb-gilmore was executed by firing squad in 1977 .