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Sunday, January 17, 2016

GARY GILMORE (DECEMBER 4, 1940 TO JANUARY 17, 1977)



            On this date, January 17, 1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States. Please go to this previous blog post to read an op-ed on one of his quotes.

  

Portland Police Bureau mug shot of Gary Gilmore

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