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	Gary Gilmore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gary Mark Gilmore was born in a rural Texas town in December 1940, the second of four sons.
		Gilmore's trial was held from October 5 to October 7, 1976 – he was quickly convicted of the murder, mostly because there was no defense on his part.
		Gilmore was shot by a firing squad on January 17, 1977 after angrily telling his lawyers to drop the appeals they had filed in defiance of his wishes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Gilmore (867 words)

	Mikal Gilmore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gilmore was long interested in music, and in the early 1970s began writing articles for Rolling Stone.
		In 1977, Gilmore's brother Gary, a convicted murderer, was executed by firing squad in Utah.
		Mikal Gilmore's 1995 memoir, Shot In The Heart, details his relationship with Gary and their often troubled family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikal_Gilmore (159 words)

	Cremaster 2 Characters
		Gilmore's subsequent execution (and redemption) is staged in a prison rodeo in the Bonneville Salt Flats.
		She apperars as the medium in the seance held with Frank and Bessie Gilmore to summon the spirit of Houdini and precipitates Gary Gilmore's conception.
		The band appears just before Gary Gilmore is shown for the first time, and their dark tone foretells the evil that is about to unfold.
	www.cremasterfanatic.com /Characters2.html (530 words)

	Gary Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		In 1976 Gary Gilmore was paroled from prison after having spent half of his 35 years in jail.
		Gilmore was connected to this gun because of bloodstains found where the gun was disposed of after the murder.
		Gilmore refused to appeal the decision and said, "he just wanted to be shot and be done with it." On January 17, 1977, he got his wish.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~pyle/pla3013/gilmore2.html (321 words)

	Gary Mark Gilmore #1
		Gary was supposed to do likewise, but he waited till closer to morning, which gave the appearance that he wanted her to die while he was found and saved.
		In October 1976 Gary Gilmore was convicted of a double murder in Utah and sentenced to death.
		Gilmore's paradoxical position of having to lose the game in order to win it, and his disturbance of the processes by which legal stories are produced, suggested imaginative spaces in which alternative stories about him could be told.
	www.clarkprosecutor.org /html/death/US/gilmore001.htm (11166 words)

	CBSNews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Gilmore, who had asked to be executed, had been convicted of murdering Bennie Bushnell and Max David Jensen, both shot during robberies.
		Gilmore's uncle, one of the only people to have close contact with the convict before his death said of the execution, "I would like to say at this time, Gary, my nephew, died like he wanted to die, in dignity.
		Gilmore's death publicly marked the resumption of executions in the United States.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/capital/whois_gilmore.html (201 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 17 \| 1977: Gilmore executed by firing squad
		Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer, was executed today by firing squad in the Utah state prison in Salt Lake City.
		Gilmore, 36, was sentenced to death for the murder in 1976 of a motel clerk in Provo, Utah.
		Gilmore was sentenced to death for the murder of a motel manager in Provo, Utah on 20 July 1976.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17/newsid_2530000/2530413.stm (480 words)

	Shot in the Heart
		Mikal Gilmore is the youngest brother of Gary Gilmore, executed at his own urging for the murder of two innocent men.
		The Gilmore children grew up hearing family secrets and stories, from the abandonment of their father by Houdini to the dramatic tale of a public hanging witnessed by their mother as a young girl.
		Frank and Gary Gilmore were only a year apart in age yet Gary spent most of his life in prison and became a vicious murderer, while Frank went to prison as a conscientious objector who refused to even pick up a gun.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/shotintheheart (691 words)

	Gary Gilmore's Home On The Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Gary Gilmore was the first person to be executed in the United States since the reinstatement in 1976 of the death penalty after a 10 year hiatus.
		When it wasn't, the country watched in fascination as Gary Gilmore twice tried to commit suicide to do the job the government was having such a hard time doing.
		The simple fact that Gary's was to be the first execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty should have been enough to garner the attention of the media, but the circumstances were so extraordinary that they drew not only the attention of the United States but the entire world as well.
	www.edistodesign.com /gary (767 words)

	U.S. nears 1,000th execution since 1977 - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Gary Mark Gilmore arrives heavily guarded to 4th District Court in Provo, Utah on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1976.
		Gilmore was in court to get a new date of execution by firing squad.
		Gilmore was executed before a Utah firing squad, after a record of petty crime, killing of a motel manager and suicide attempts in prison.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/11/24/united_states_nears_1000th_execution (1443 words)

	Comunità di Sant'Egidio - News
		The death sentence of Gary Mark Gilmore, the first man to be executed in the United States in a decade, was major news, and Gilmore was a glamorous subject.
		Gilmore gained mythological status in 1979 with the publication of "The Executioner's Song," Norman Mailer's brilliant anthropological vision of the case.
		For Gary Gilmore, living, not dying, was the punishment he couldn't bear.
	www.santegidio.org /pdm/news/12_10_01_c.htm (976 words)

	All about Gary Gilmore by Katherine Ramsland
		There are also a few film clips available of Gilmore as he spoke to the press or to the courts, and an AandE documentary collected these into an overview of his fight to die rather then face years in prison.
		Gilmore is a historical case, in that he was the first man to be executed after the U. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, and because he refused all appeals to which he was legally entitled.
		She hadn't seen Gary since he was a boy, but she remembered how distinctive he was.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial10/gilmore (1652 words)

	Gary Gilmore at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Gary Gilmore (1940-1977) was the first person legally put to death for murder in the United States since 1967.
		Gilmore had killed a motel manager in Provo, Utah and was also charged with murdering a gas station employee in Orem, Utah, the previous day, but that case never went to trial.
		Gilmore had spent 18 of his last 21 years in jail and prison; he hurried the justice process along.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Gary_Gilmore.html (231 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Mailer: Settling for Less (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		...Mailer never met Gary Gilmore, who became as famous as a movie star during his brief flare of iniquitous glory, and he agreed to write the book months after Gilmore was executed, when a great deal of the research had already been accumulated by others...
		...In dealing with Gilmore, Mailer resists the urge to be the enfant terrible of the literary world or the theoretician of the demonic instructing us in the "existential" significance of Gary Gilmore's wretched history...
		...Whenever Gilmore's crippled mother, Bessie, is speakingand she is the one figure in the book with the premeditated look and sound of a character in a novel -we get a sense of the unrealized literary possibilities in this mountain of factuality...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V69I2P67-1.htm (2551 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Gilmore gun offered for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		It is 25 years Thursday since Gilmore became the first man executed in the United States after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a 10-year ban on the death penalty in 1976.
		Gilmore confessed to fatally shooting an Orem gas station worker and a Provo motel manager in two armed robberies.
		Gilmore chose to be executed Jan. 17, 1977, by firing squad.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,365008398,00.html (623 words)

	1970's Executions
		That night, Gary Gilmore had a spat with his girlfriend and went driving with her mentally unstable younger sister, April.
		Gilmore went around the corner, out of her sight, and into the Sinclair service station.
		Gilmore was the first person executed in the U.S. in almost 10 years.
	www.prodeathpenalty.com /Pending/1970s.htm (510 words)

	Amazon.com: Shot in the Heart: Books: Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Mikal Gilmore is a Rolling Stone writer and the youngest brother of murderer Gary Gilmore, who became, in 1977, the first person to be executed in the United States after a 10-year hiatus, a case which was subsequently recounted in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song.
		Yet, Gary Gilmore was a person shaped by the events of his formative years and by the events which took place in his family.
		Gary's violent acts, and the fate he suffered, prove once more that it is the children who often pay for the sins of the parents.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385478003?v=glance (2242 words)

	Fulbright Scholar Stories: Gary Gilmore
		In November 1999, Gary Gilmore, a professor in the Department of Health Education and Health Promotion at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and director of the university's community health programs, traveled to Calcutta, India, to begin his Fulbright lecturing assignment at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health.
		Gilmore's wife, Elizabeth, a registered occupational therapist, accompanied him during his grant and volunteered full time at the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy.
		Gilmore found that his Indian colleagues and students were receptive to discussing the emerging public health concerns of their country and eager to learn more about health promotion activities that have worked in other areas of the world.
	www.cies.org /stories/s_ggilmore.htm (411 words)

	Brother's sad tale / Gary Gilmore focus of HBO's fine 'Shot'
		Based on his own book, "Shot in the Heart" is Mikal Gilmore's story of a harrowing family fate, of how his brother, Gary, who murdered two men just after the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, rose to notoriety for being the first person executed in the United States in nearly a decade.
		There are no missteps here in a story that creeps up on you and finds, in the midst of Gary's unexplained double murder and the Gilmore family's curse (their mother believed that), strong threads of love in a quilt of almost unimaginable hatred.
		Gary Gilmore's infamy is partly due to his being the first person executed (January 1977) after the lifting of the ban and partly because his story was told by Norman Mailer in "The Executioner's Song." But as Mikal Gilmore writes in his book, Mailer never captured the real story.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/12/DD159756.DTL (664 words)

	Coastal Carolina University Magazine - Double Play - Fall 2002 - Winter 2003
		Gary Gilmore in 1979 as a Chanticleer (far left) and with Justin Owens, who was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in
		Gilmore is now in his eighth season as Coastal’s head baseball coach and has guided his alma mater to the last two Big South Conference (BSC) titles as well as back-to-back appearances in the NCAA East Regionals.
		Gilmore, who had a.353 batting average when he was leadoff hitter for the Chanticleers, went on to play in the Philadelphia Phillies organization after graduating from Coastal and then worked as a scout for the Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Indians.
	www.coastal.edu /magazine/fall2002/feature04.html (1985 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| SHOT IN THE HEART by Mikal Gilmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977.
		In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a flsheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, and con man. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder.
		Mikal, burdened with the guilt of being his father's favorite and the shame of being Gary's brother, gracefully and painfully relates a murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born...
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/shot_in_the_heart.asp (701 words)

	Amazon.com: The Executioner's Song (Vintage International): Books: Norman Mailer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Gilmore, as well as anyone, knew what prison was like and that he wanted nothing more to do with that kind of life.
		Gilmore himself was a complex and fascinating individual with underdeveloped emotional control and virtually no social skills to speak of.
		Gilmore's desire to possess Nicole was so great that he was unable to bear the thought that she might be capable of finding happiness without him.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375700811?v=glance (2050 words)

	Coastal Carolina University Athletics :: Official Site :: GoCCUSports.com
		Gilmore also coached Mike Costanzo, who earned First Team All-America honors by three organizations, earned his second consecutive Big South Player of the Year award and was named to the All-Big South First Team as both a first baseman and a pitcher, the first Big South player to ever earn multiple first-team honors.
		For his efforts, Gilmore was rewarded with a four-year contract in July of 2005 that featured incentive plans for himself and all the assistant coaches.
		Gilmore and his wife Cathy have a son, Chance (17), who is a freshman outfielder for the University of Virginia, and a daughter Samantha (15).
	www.goccusports.com /?staff=54 (1516 words)

	Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes!
		The brother of Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family--a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder.
		It is a story of murders: murders of the flesh, and of the spirit; murders born of heartbreak, of hatred, of retribution.
		Gary flatly refused to discuss the secrets of his childhood, and when his mother, Bessie, was asked about the family's past, she answered in maddening and evasive riddles.
	www.wutheringbites.com /Read/bookpage2.asp?BookID=83 (948 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Executioner's Song, The (Norman Mailer)
		The first half of the book, from Gilmore's release on parole to the killings that signal his return to prison, is an exceptional piece of creative journalism.
		Gilmore is a frightening person not because he's violent or lunatic; he's frightening because, at a fundamental level, he's alien, unknowable to the rest of us, his true thoughts so hidden and so foreign--perhaps even to himself--that you can only watch him crawl toward his death with a sort of sick fascination.
		The media love Gilmore; the attorneys see him as a legal entity and even as a friend; and Gilmore's family and friends are all supporters in one form or another.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/MailerNormanExecutionersSongThe.shtml (701 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Shot in the Heart > Printer Friendly
		Though the text extras on the DVD state that Gilmore's trial and execution were profound on sociological, criminal, and basic human levels, I had not heard of Gary Gilmore before watching the film.
		The film takes the stance that Gary felt he needed to be executed by firing squad so his blood would spill onto the ground and this act would grant him a chance at forgiveness.
		Other extras include a text excerpt from the book, a selection of eight pieces of art by Gary Gilmore, a selection of five Gilmore family photos, brief biographies for the cast and director, and a text explanation by Mikal of why certain songs were chosen for inclusion in the film.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=3669 (681 words)

	Eye - BOOKS: Shot in the Heart -- Mikal Gilmore - 08.18.94 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Famed murderer Gary Gilmore's death-wish in the late '70s -- immortalized in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song and The Adverts' single "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" -- choked the American consciousness and became a pock on that country's history.
		Shot In The Heart, the long-awaited book by Gary's baby brother (and a Rolling Stone writer and editor) Mikal, is the story of the origins of Gary's crimes, and a paean to Oscar Wilde's quip about families not having the foggiest notion of how to live or when to die.
		Shot In The Heart is not a defence of Gary Gilmore's crimes, it's more a cry out against two powerful American institutions -- the family and the prison systems; everyone wants to know what goes into the making of a murder, but only after the crime has been committed.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.18.94/ARTS/bo0818c.htm (376 words)

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