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To: datura
And a little history. . .
Gary Gilmore was an American who gained international notoriety for demanding the fulfillment of his own death sentence for two murders he committed in Utah.

He became the first person executed in the United States in ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia. Gilmore was executed by firing squad at Utah State Prison in 1977.

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10 posted on 08/01/2013 9:12:26 PM PDT by deks ("...the battle...liberty against the overreach of the federal government" Ken Cuccinelli)
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To: deks
When Gary Gilmore was asked if he had any last words, he said "Let's do it."

For a short period you could buy t-shirts with mock bullet holes and blood on them, and the slogan "Let's do it."

44 posted on 08/02/2013 7:10:04 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (What happens over the rainbow stays over the rainbow)
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