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“I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.”

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Gary Gilmore is a famous American death penalty execution case. Born on December 4, 1940, in Idaho, he was executed by electrocution in Utah on January 17, 1977. He was sentenced to death for the murder of two gas station attendants and became the first prisoner in American history to publicly demand the death penalty. more

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