Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century

The Case of Gary Gilmore (1x24)

Air date: Apr 12, 1994

He was the double murderer who insisted on being executed. The question always remained: how badly did he want to die, and why? It was good that he believed in reincarnation as on 17th January 1977 after years of legal moralising his wish was granted and he was strapped to an old office chair and shot dead by a firing squad in Utah.