South Bank Show - Norman Mailer
Description
On January 17th 1977, double murderer Gary Mark Gilmore met his death before a firing squad in Utah, USA. Beforehand, Gilmore was surrounded by a grisly circus of the world's pressmen, anxious for news about the man who had accepted his own death sentence. Norman Mailer's new novel 'The Executioner's Song' explores, in exceptional detail, the lives of the people involved in the Gilmore story. s