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Several professors at Harvard Law School expressed distress yesterday at Gary M. Gilmore's execution in Utah.

Author: By Warren W. Ludwig, | Title: Gilmore's Execution Stirs Distress in Law Faculty | 1/18/1977 | See Source »

Gilmore's execution early yesterday morning, the first capital punishment in the United States since 1967, followed a last minute flurry of court activity.

Author: By Warren W. Ludwig, | Title: Gilmore's Execution Stirs Distress in Law Faculty | 1/18/1977 | See Source »

Fearful of a rightist backlash and possible violence on referendum day. Suárez canceled a last-minute campaign trip to the restive northern region of Catalonia to supervise the search for Oriel's kidnapers. In a dramatic TV address minutes before the Friday "execution" deadline set by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A Resounding S | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Though Gilmore has persistently disavowed all lawyers who tried to win him a reprieve, the decisive intervention came when Stanford Law Professor Anthony G. Amsterdam moved in the following day, on behalf of Gilmore's mother. Amsterdam, a leader in the fight against capital punishment for a decade, filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Much Ado About Gary | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

So, for a time, the execution was called off.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Much Ado About Gary | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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