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To: TheBrotherhood

No...this was s case in Utah...some guy wrote a book about it called "Executioner's Song." Funny...I can remember the book title but not the author... :o[


1,572 posted on 02/08/2006 2:22:22 PM PST by Monkey Face (If I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?)
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To: Monkey Face

If this is the Gary Gilmore I'm thinking of, he was executed in the early 70's.


1,574 posted on 02/08/2006 2:25:30 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (Randomness does not create intelligence; only intelligence creates intelligence.)
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To: Monkey Face
Same guy.

Executed January 17, 1977.

First guy to be executed after US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty.

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1,583 posted on 02/08/2006 2:32:20 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (Randomness does not create intelligence; only intelligence creates intelligence.)
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