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Date: 05 December 1940

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. 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. His life and execution were the subject of the 1979 nonfiction novel The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer, and the 1982 TV film of the novel starring Tommy Lee Jones as Gilmore.
Lire la suite...Le 4 décembre 1940 était un mercredi sous le signe astral du ♐. C'était le 338ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Date: 04 December 1940
By RAYMOND R. CAMP
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Date: 05 December 1940
By DOUGLAS W. CHURCHILL Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Date: 05 December 1940
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Date: 04 December 1940
Date: 04 December 1940
By DOUGLAS W. CHURCHILL Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Douglas CHURCHILL
Date: 05 December 1940
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Date: 04 December 1940
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES