Gary Mark Gilmore
Executed
No licensed photo
- Status
- Executed
- Date
- 1977-01-17
- Country
- United States
- Jurisdiction
- Utah, United States
- Location
- Utah State Prison, Point of the Mountain, Salt Lake City area, Utah
- Crime
- Sentenced to death for the murder of Bennie Bushnell, a motel manager in Provo, Utah. He was also charged with killing a service-station attendant in Orem the previous day; that case never went to trial. Both men were shot during robberies.
- Method
- firing squad
What happened
Gilmore was sentenced to death for the July 20, 1976 murder of Bennie Bushnell in Provo. He pressed for his sentence to be carried out rather than pursue appeals, and the execution was stayed three times. In the early hours of January 17, 1977, a federal appeals court in Denver overturned a restraining order, and he was executed that morning at Utah State Prison. It was the first execution in the United States since 1967, after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Timeline
- Murder of Bennie Bushnell in Provo, Utah
- Federal appeals court in Denver overturns a restraining order
- Executed at Utah State Prison, 8:06 a.m. MST
In memory
Bennie Bushnell, 25, a Provo motel manager. Named by Los Angeles Times.
Source
Source: BBC News
References
- 1977: Gilmore executed by firing squad (On This Day) · BBC News
- 'Let's Do It' (Bill Beecham, Jan. 11, 1987) · Los Angeles Times
- 1977: Gary Gilmore (AP) · CBS News
Content hash (SHA-256): ee19724e0402b61eb0a5d8b07bd4c843260a51ab8158c39ded8703dd76bd0cc8
not yet anchored
Related links
Related records
Research
Court documents and rulings
Not recorded
Official reports and notices
Not recorded
News coverage
Not recorded
Further reading
- Death Penalty Information Center execution database · Death Penalty Information Center
Public sources only. No attack methods, tactics, or instructions. A dot is a sourced record, not a live location. Records with no coordinates stay off the map.