The Executioner's Song
Author: Mailer, Norman
ISBN: 9780099688600
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 1088
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 49mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN
In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years.
But Gary Gilmore wanted to die, and his ensuing battle with the authorities for the right to do so made him into a world-wide celebrity - and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.
ISBN: 9780099688600
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 1088
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 49mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN
In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years.
But Gary Gilmore wanted to die, and his ensuing battle with the authorities for the right to do so made him into a world-wide celebrity - and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.
