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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 and Other Crimes Committee -Gilmore was equally blunt: "All I have to say to all of them-the rabbis, the priests, the A.C.L.U.-I'd like them to butt out. It's my life and my death...
With the frenzy increasing around the spectacle, Governor Calvin Rampton intervened by staying the execution until the board of pardons can meet this week. The move meant that it will probably be next week at the earliest before Gilmore can get his death wish...
Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton has delayed the execution pending a review of the case by the State Board of Pardons. The board was schuduled to convene on Wednesday, but had to delay the meeting until December 6 because of an unsuccessful suicide attempt by Gilmore last Tuesday...
...UTAH GOVERNOR Calvin Rampton not intervened last week, Gary Gilmore would have been executed this past Monday, the first person put to death in the United States since 1967. The Utah Supreme Court had already approved the death sentence in a 4-1 decision last Wednesday, and Utah state prison warden Samuel Smith had begun to accept the names of volunteers for a five-man firing squad. Rampton, however, decided to delay the execution pending a parole board review...
Ironically, Rampton's intervention was not appreciated by the man it ostensibly benefited; if Gary Gilmore had had his way, he would be dead now. Throwing a bizarre twist into the emotionally volatile capital punishment debate, Gilmore had asked the court to permit his execution...