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The Executioner's Song ~ Gary Gilmore ~ Death by firing squad. Denise Rainey. 4.19K subscribers. Subscribed. 121. 9.6K views 5 years ago.
Capital punishment. Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading [1] (from the French fusil, rifle ), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are usually readily available and a gunshot to a vital organ, such as the brain or ...
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Gilmore was executed by a firing squad in 1977. His life and execution were the subject of the 1979 nonfiction novel The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, and 1982 TV film of the novel starring Tommy Lee Jones as Gilmore.
- Max Jensen, Bennie Bushnell
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- Mikal Gilmore (brother)
On January 17, 1977, Gilmore is executed by firing squad, as he chose. His body is then cremated after parts are extracted for donation in accordance with his wishes. He was the first person to be judicially executed in the United States after the execution of Luis Monge in Colorado on June 2, 1967. Cast. Tommy Lee Jones as Gary Mark Gilmore
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea. It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict practiced Juche ideology. [1]
Joe Hill (October 7, 1879 – November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, [1] was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies"). [2] A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while ...
Service years. 1916–1917. Signature. Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari ( / ˈmɑːtə ˈhɑːri /; from Malay, "sun" or "eye of the day"), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I.
