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Several professors at Harvard Law School expressed distress yesterday at Gary M. Gilmore's execution in Utah.
Gilmore's execution early yesterday morning, the first capital punishment in the United States since 1967, followed a last minute flurry of court activity.
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...
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...
So, for a time, the execution was called off.