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Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American who gained international notoriety for demanding that his own death sentence be fulfilled following two murders he committed in Utah. He became the first person executed in the United States after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia. (These new statutes avoided the problems that had led earlier death penalty statutes to be deemed unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia.) Gilmore was executed by firing squad in 1977.
Gilmore was born in a hospital in McCamey, Texas on December 4, 1940, the second son of Frank and Bessie Gilmore. Frank Gilmore Sr. was an alcoholic con man who sold fake magazine subscriptions. He had married Bessie, a Mormon outcast from Provo, Utah, on a whim, in Sacramento, California. Frank had many wives and families before her, none of whom he cared about or supported. They had a son, Frank Jr., and then Gary came along while they were wandering aimlessly through Texas under the pseudonym of Coffman to avoid the law. Frank christened him Faye Robert Coffman, which Bessie quickly changed to Gary, once they left Texas. However, this birth certificate proved to be a sore spot years later (Gilmore's mother had kept his original birth certificate). Many years later, in the early 1960s, upon finding the birth certificate that stated his name was "Faye Robert Coffman", Gilmore thought that he had been illegitimate or someone else's son, felt that it was the reason he and his father did not ever get along, and he was very upset and walked out on his mother, Bessie, when she tried to explain to him.
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Plot: Gary Gilmore is about to experience this new punishment. Having been found guilty of cold-bloodily killing 3 people in a bad crime goes worse, having taken the lives of the innocent store clerk and that of John and Tyrone, 2 young punks who had just made another poor judgement in their now, short-lived lives. It's too late for Gary to change in this life but, maybe, not for his next. Thus: "If we can't teach the heart and mind through punishment, then let's educate the soul."
Keywords: capital-punishment, criminal-rehabilitationActors: Matthew Barney (editor), Matthew Barney (producer), Matthew Barney (director), Matthew Barney (writer), Matthew Barney (actor), Mike Bocchetti (actor), Todd Christian Hunter (actor), Jim Tooey (actor), Jonathan Bepler (composer), Peter Donald Badalamenti II (actor), Heather Coker (actress), Richard Serra (actor), James Drescher (actor), Aimee Mullins (actress), Tara Stiles (actress),
Plot: Barney plays the Entered Apprentice and his opponents include the Order of the Rainbow for Girls (who look a lot like the Rockettes), Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law (two New York Hardcore bands), Aimee Mullins, and Richard Serra. Molten Vaseline, dental surgery, a demolition derby by vintage Chrysler Imperial New Yorker cars and a gorgeous creature who is half-cheetah/half woman all figure in this latest edition of Matthew Barney's fever dream. Much of the action takes place in two New York landmarks, the Chrysler Building and the Guggenheim Museum, as well as at the Saratoga Racetrack (upstate NY), the Giant's Causeway (Ireland) and Fingal's cave (the Scottish Isle of Staffa).
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Plot: In fall 1977, Mikal Gilmore and his older brother Frank Jr. ride through the Salt Lake Valley in a Rolls-Royce driven by ACLU lawyer Richard Giaque. They are on their way to Utah's Draper Prison for a "one-time-only" visit with their notorious brother Gary, a death-row inmate set to be executed in a few days. Convicted a year earlier of the brutal murders of two Mormon men, Gary has been sentenced to death in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to reinstate capital punishment. Since he stands to become the first American in more than a decade to be executed, Gary has become the subject of enormous national attention, and his request to die stuns his ailing mother Bessie and confuses his brothers. Mikal and Frank hope to meet with Gary, change his mind, and get papers signed that will stay the execution.
Keywords: 1970s, abandoned-baby, aclu, attempted-suicide, based-on-book, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, brother-brother-relationship, capital-punishment, christmas-carolActors: Norman Mailer (actor), Matthew Barney (writer), Matthew Barney (producer), Matthew Barney (director), Matthew Barney (actor), Gabriel Bartalos (actor), Andrés Baiz (miscellaneous crew), Kembra Pfahler (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Bepler (composer), Michael Thompson (actor), Barbara Gladstone (producer), Chelsea Romersa (actor), Chelsea Romersa (actor), Patty Griffin (actress), Chelsea Romersa (producer),
Genres: Drama,