GILMORE, GARY: Timeshift: Crime & Punishment TV - Great Crimes & Trials TV - Biography online - Gary Gilmore -
Gary Gilmore became the first person to be executed in the US for ten years … by a firing squad in Utah. Timeshift: Crime and Punishment: The Story of Capital Punishment, BBC 2018
By 1976 there had been no executions for 10 years in the United States. Great Crimes & Trials s1e13: Gary Gilmore, BBC 1993
In and out of jail at age 22 he was sentenced to 15 years for armed robbery. ibid.
He was a graphic artist of real talent. ibid.
And walked into this gas station with the gun ... He shot twice saying, This one’s for me, this one’s for Nicole ... He accidentally shot himself in the hand. ibid.
The Civil Liberties Union stepped in. ibid.
He was rushed to hospital to have his stomach pumped. ibid.
He went on a hunger strike that lasted 25 days. ibid.
A condemned man pleaded not to live but to die. ibid.
The Board of Pardons also heard pleas to keep him alive. ibid.
Gilmore’s body was taken away to have transplant organs removed. His lawyers and his uncle gave a press conference. ibid.
Gary Gilmore was born on December 4, 1940, into a household with an abusive and alcoholic father. Gilmore was sent to reform school for stealing and by the age of 35 spent half his life in prison. Released for college, he committed a robbery and was imprisoned again. He was released on parole three years later. In 1976, he shot two men, was caught and sentenced to death by firing squad. Biography online profile
I don’t deserve anything either. Gary Gilmore
They always want to get in on the act they sell you. I don’t think they’ve done anything effective in their lives ... Butt out. This is my life and this is my death. It’s been sanctioned by the courts that I die, and I accept that. Gary Gilmore
GILMOUR, RAYMOND [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Gilmour, Raymond]: Trial & Error TV - Evidence-Based Justice Lab online
Some decisions are poised on the finest of balances. It takes skill and dexterity to maintain the illusion of stability. This is the story of a case which even the judge said was knife-edged. The evidence always teetered on the very edge of truth. And under the scrutiny that Trial & Error has brought to bear, the case collapses. Trial & Error: Raymond Gilmour, Channel 4 1994
The rape and murder of a Scottish schoolgirl … The murder of Pamela Hastie … What eventually got Raymond Gilmour convicted were two alleged confessions. ibid.
Those admissions that Gilmour claimed, though the police denied it in court, were forced out of him. ibid.
A guilty verdict on the narrowest of margins: eight to six. ibid.
There was no forensic evidence to link Gilmour to the murder. ibid.
Raymond Gilmour confessed to the murder of 16 year old Pamela Hastie twice, but then retracted his confession. He claims this was the result of the pressure of interrogation and that he was attacked and threatened and began to question whether he had actually carried out the crime. His conviction was quashed on appeal when psychological evidence was introduced to suggest he was vulnerable and susceptible to falsely confessing and forensic evidence suggested the use of a knife or sharp object that was not mentioned in the confessions. Evidence-Based Justice Lab online article
GILYARD, LORENZO: Serial Killer with Piers Morgan TV -
This man is one of America’s most notorious serial killers. Known as the Kansas City Strangler. Lorenzo Gilyard was charged with murdering 13 women. He’s serving 6 life sentences. He says he is an innocent man. Serial Killer with Piers Morgan s1e2: Lorenzo Gilyard, ITV 2018
12 of the bodies had semen on them but detective had no way of knowing they were all from the same man. The murders went unsolved. ibid.