After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia, Gary Mark Gilmore became the first person in almost ten years to be executed in the United States. His story had immense cultural resonance at the time.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gilmore_(criminal)

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