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Gary Gilmore

1940 - 1977

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Gary Mark Gilmore (born Faye Robert Coffman; December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international attention for demanding the implementation of his death sentence for two murders he had admitted to committing in Utah. After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia, he became the first person in almost ten years to be executed in the United States. These new statutes avoided the problems under the 1972 decision in Furman v. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gary Gilmore is the 59th most popular extremist (up from 220th in 2019), the 1,541st most popular biography from United States (up from 6,322nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Gary Gilmore ranks 59 out of 283. Before him are Mohamed Atta, Butch Cassidy, Pavlik Morozov, Tex Watson, Karl Denke, and Friedrich Jeckeln. After him are Dennis Rader, Edmund Kemper, Fritz Haarmann, Tommaso Buscetta, Henri Désiré Landru, and Aileen Wuornos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Gary Gilmore ranks 93. Before him are Mina, Arieh Warshel, Marlène Jobert, Milena Dravić, John Gotti, and Al Jarreau. After him are Masahiro Hamazaki, Edward C. Prescott, Jair da Costa, George Akerlof, Lothar de Maizière, and Alan Kay. Among people deceased in 1977, Gary Gilmore ranks 40. Before him are Peter Finch, Modibo Keïta, Steve Biko, Sergey Ilyushin, Groucho Marx, and Francis Gary Powers. After him are John Dickson Carr, Abdel Halim Hafez, Alia Al-Hussein, Shogo Kamo, Gangubai Kothewali, and Naum Gabo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Gilmore ranks 1,541 out of 20,380. Before him are George Stigler (1911), Jackie Robinson (1919), Barbara Bel Geddes (1922), Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861), Cesar Chavez (1927), and Edith Wharton (1862). After him are Henry Way Kendall (1926), Dennis Rader (1945), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Shia LaBeouf (1986), Harriet Jacobs (1813), and Joel Schumacher (1939).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Gary Gilmore ranks 22. Before him are H. H. Holmes (1861), Timothy McVeigh (1968), Jim Jones (1931), William Kemmler (1860), Butch Cassidy (1866), and Tex Watson (1945). After him are Dennis Rader (1945), Edmund Kemper (1948), Aileen Wuornos (1956), Rodney Alcala (1943), Marvin Heemeyer (1951), and Jordan Belfort (1962).

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