About the Book: The Executioners Song (Arena Books)
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.