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HAD UTAH GOVERNOR Calvin Rampton not intervened last week, Gary Gilmore would have been executed this past Monday, the first person put to death in the United States since 1967. The Utah Supreme Court had already approved the death sentence in a 4-1 decision last Wednesday, and Utah state...
Ironically, Rampton's intervention was not appreciated by the man it ostensibly benefited; if Gary Gilmore had had his way, he would be dead now. Throwing a bizarre twist into the emotionally volatile capital punishment debate, Gilmore had asked the court to permit his execution.
From the very outset of his case, Gilmore's actions showed that he was bent on a course of self-destruction. When he was sentenced to death on November 1 for the first-degree murder of a 24-year-old hotel clerk, Gilmore declared that he wished to be executed...
Approximately 300 people in the United States presently await execution on death row. Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have paved the way for executions in many states that have revised their capital punishment laws to conform to Supreme Court guidelines. Now the Gilmore case, by suggesting that some felons may...
Sanders' prediction proved correct. Sloppy ball-handling and poor play-execution were the consequences of physical aggression. Most of the players spent a great deal of time on their backs or in someone else's arms.