This article is about the American murderer. For other people with the same name, see Gary Gilmore (disambiguation).
Gary Gilmore
Portland Police Bureau mugshots
Born
Faye Robert Coffman
(1940-12-04)December 4, 1940
McCamey, Texas, U.S.
Died
January 17, 1977(1977-01-17) (aged 36)
Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, U.S.
Cause of death
Execution by firing squad
Criminal status
Executed
Parent(s)
Frank Gilmore Sr. (father) Bessie Gilmore (mother)
Relatives
Mikal Gilmore (brother)
Conviction(s)
First degree murder Armed robbery (3 counts) Assault (2 counts)
Criminal penalty
Death
Details
Victims
Max Jensen Bennie Bushnell
Date
July 19 & 20, 1976
State(s)
Utah
Location(s)
Orem Provo
Date apprehended
July 21, 1976
Gary Mark Gilmore (born Faye Robert Coffman; December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international attention for demanding the implementation of his death sentence for two murders he had admitted to committing 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.[1] These new statutes avoided the problems under the 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia, which had resulted in earlier death penalty statutes being deemed "cruel and unusual" punishment, and therefore unconstitutional (The Supreme Court had previously ordered all states to commute death sentences to life imprisonment after Furman.). Gilmore was executed by a firing squad in 1977.[2] His life and execution were the subject of the 1979 nonfiction novel The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, and 1982 TV film of the novel starring Tommy Lee Jones as Gilmore.
^Hughes, Graham (28 June 1979). "License to Kill". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
^"Death Watch in Salt Lake City". Time. 24 Jan 1977. Archived from the original on June 8, 2008. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
Gary Mark Gilmore (born Faye Robert Coffman; December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international attention for demanding...
known for being the younger brother of convicted criminal GaryGilmore. In the 1970s Gilmore began writing music articles and criticism for Rolling Stone...
Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role as executed murderer GaryGilmore in The Executioner's Song (1982). He was further nominated for playing...
Happy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, produced by Robert Simonds, and starring Adam Sandler in the title role...
teammate possibly due to his having the same last name as serial killer GaryGilmore (though others have attributed it to his physical style of play despite...
Gilmore, then a senior contributing editor at Rolling Stone, about his tumultuous childhood in a dysfunctional family, and his brother GaryGilmore's...
after capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, and the second (after GaryGilmore) in the United States. A 12-year-old Spenkelink discovered the body of...
film 1995 Sugartime Butch Blasi Television film 2001 Shot in the Heart GaryGilmore Television film 2002 The Sopranos Dominic Palladino Episode: "The Strong...
Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his performance as GaryGilmore in The Executioner's Song (1992). He received honorary awards including...
Amazing Howard Hughes Howard Hughes TV film 1982 The Executioner's Song GaryGilmore TV film 1982 The Rainmaker Starbuck TV film 1984 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
punk bands to achieve mainstream success in the UK; their 1977 single "GaryGilmore's Eyes" reached No. 18 on the UK Singles Chart. The Virgin Encyclopedia...
national moratorium on capital punishment ended with Gregg v. Georgia, when GaryGilmore was executed by firing squad in 1977. Utah is one of only two states...
at Springs Brooks Stadium and were led by twenty-nine year head coach GaryGilmore. They were members of the Sun Belt Conference. Schedule Source: *Rankings...
Executioner's Song, Mailer's "real-life novel" of the life and death of murderer GaryGilmore, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Joan Didion reflected the views...
himself the sole journalist to witness the execution of GaryGilmore in Utah....In the Gilmore affair, he was like a ringmaster in what became a media...
inspiration for his "Just Do It" Nike slogan to a death row inmate GaryGilmore’s last words: "Let's do it." From 1988 to 1998, Nike increased its share...
third person in the U.S. to be executed since the reinstatement, after GaryGilmore (who died by firing squad) and John Spenkelink (executed in the electic...
second person to be executed by firing squad in the United States (after GaryGilmore) since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Taylor said he chose...
at Springs Brooks Stadium and were led by twenty-nine year head coach GaryGilmore. They were members of the Sun Belt Conference. The Sun Belt Conference...
Global Information