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When Gary Mark Gilmore's mother appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court last week to stay his imminent execution, she raised anew the fundamental question: Is the death penalty constitutional?
LOUISIANA: In July a 5-to-4 vote had struck down part of Louisiana's new capital-punishment statute because it mandated death for all those convicted of first-degree murder. It did not deal specifically, however, with a section of the law mandating execution for cop killers. When...
The judge said he did not have the authority to set the details of the execution but would notify Warden Samuel Smith of Gilmore's request. That left only the time to be set.
To all appearances, the long wait seemed almost over for Gary Mark Gilmore last week. Just as he had been demanding ever since his conviction two months ago for the murder of a 25-year-old motel clerk in Provo, Utah, Gilmore was being given the right to die. After...
Gilmore repeated his earlier charge that Governor Calvin Rampton was a "moral coward" for staying his execution last month. As for the others who wanted to speak in his defense-the witnesses at the hearing included a right-to-life housewife and a vociferous representative of the Citizens Against Pornography...