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About a dozen students from the Law School and the Divinity School formed the anti-capital punishment group at a hastily assembled meeting following the execution of Gary Gilmore on Monday, Frank J. Gruber, another member of the group's steering committee, said yesterday.
"We were astounded and appalled by the first execution in this country in ten years," he said.
Late Sunday night, Federal District Court Judge Willis Ritter ordered a stay of execution, but a federal appeals court lifted the stay early Monday morning. Thirty minutes after the stay was lifted, at 8:07 Mountain Standard Time, Gilmore was executed.
Jerry L. Jurek, convicted of murdering a 12 year old girl, is scheduled to be executed tomorrow before dawn in Texas where appeals for a stay of execution are still pending. A district court judge has ordered that Texas executions can be televised by the news media.
There are over 350 other men and women in the United States sentenced to death without scheduled dates of execution.