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The execution of Gary Gilmore on January 17th, 1977, marked the end of a nearly 10-year moratorium on the death penalty in the United States. But what made Gilmore's case so special and...
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The Justice Files: The execution of Gary Gilmore
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Video footage by Randy Ripplinger, KUTV, UtahDate apprehended.July 21, 1976.Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal ...
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- ‘Begging Him to Stop’
- A Flip of A Coin
- ‘He Didn’T Want A Trial’
- ‘He Went Off on Us’
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“My father was the first person I ever wanted to murder,” Gilmore said, according to Shot in the Heart, a memoir by his youngest brother Mikal Gilmore. Their father Frank Gilmore, an alcoholic who sold ads for magazines, frequently uprooted the family. Unpredictable and violent, he used a razor strap to beat Gary and Frank Jr., the two eldest of fo...
Max Jensen, 24, didn’t want an unexpected late shift at the gas station where he worked in Orem, Utah, on July 19, 1976. The Brigham Young University student “lost a flip of a coin with the assistant manager,” Haraldsen recalls. That afternoon, he’d heard Jensen and his wife, Colleen, speak at a Latter-day Saints gathering. “It was about honesty,” ...
Defense attorney Michael Esplin first met Gilmore in a jail cell shortly after the murders. “He still had a bandage on his hand. He was not a very good criminal,” Esplin tells A&E True Crime. “He shot himself with his own gun and left a trail of blood, and he did it in front of a star witness [who was a motel guest].” Gilmore made it clear he didn’...
Esplin recalls meeting with Gilmore in a locked cell to discuss his appeal with a colleague and that it was the was the only time interacting with Gilmore where he felt nervous. “He went off on us cursing, then calmed down and said ‘what can I do?’,” Esplin says. What Gilmore did was hire new lawyers. Despite efforts from the American Civil Liberti...
Gilmore’s execution had lasting effects. “[It] signaled a resumption of the death penalty that continues even through today,” University of Utah criminal law professor Paul G. Cassell tells A&E True Crime. At a hearing for a new trial on November 1, 1976, Gilmore testifiedhe did “not care to languish in prison for another day.” Johnston surmises th...
Sep 27, 2019 · Shelley Gilbert prepared a handwritten victim impact statement to read in Manhattan Supreme Court before Justice Melissa Jackson sentenced her son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., to 30 years to life in prison.
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Jun 28, 2019 · Within 15 minutes, Gilbert Jr. was seen on surveillance video walking into and leaving the building with a hood covering his face.
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Jun 28, 2019 · On Friday, a jury in Manhattan found Mr. Gilbert guilty of second-degree murder, rejecting an insanity defense after two days of deliberation.
