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History influenced The Executioner's Song
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
- Gary Gilmore (1977)
The evidence
Norman Mailer's account of the true story of Gary Gilmore, who murdered two men in Utah in 1976 and insisted on his own execution, the first in the United States in ten years.
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