Suicide bid by Gilmore
NZPA-Reuter Salt Lake City The condemned killer, Gary Gilmore, frustrated in his pleas to be executed by a firing squad next Monday, is unconscious in hospital after his second suicide attempt in a month. Spokesmen at the Utah University Medical Centre say that his condition is critical, although he is responding to treatment. Gilmore, who is 36, took a normally-fatal phenobarbital dose in his cell a day after a county judge had set his execution date for January 17. Sentenced to death for murdering a motel night clerk in July, he protested that the delay was unnecessary, and told the judge: “You’re a moral coward.” The execution, if it takes place, would be the first in the United States for nearly 10 years.
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Press, 18 December 1976, Page 8
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