I think it was Gary Gillmore(sp).
BAZZINGA! Thank you, you have saved me much mental anguish.
That’s exactly who he was. They made a movie about him.
He did the crime, he admitted he did the crime, and he was determined to go out “like a man.”
He done did put the penal system in turmoil. But as I remember, at that time, the law was on his side. He had three or four choices on how was to be greased. He chose FS, and man did that cause an uproar. NO ONE had ever done that before.
I think the state changed all that after he was shot because they didn’t want a repeat of the situation.