22 Browning Automatic and told Jensen to empty his pockets. At well over a thousand pages long it ain’t a quick read, but it is a page turner.
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It’s an awesome piece of combined journalism, the main stories told are of Gary himself, his lover Nicole, and the man eventually who took charge of selling the story once it became national & international news, Lawrence Schiller. It deals with his behaviour to all around him, and extensively with his psychotic suicidal-infatuated relationship with Nicole Baker. It deals with his treatment through the years at the hands of the authorities from his early teens to his 20’s when he was given dose’s of Prolixin (an extremely heavy anti-psychosis drug, used in the treatment of schizophrenia) which it was said by many and himself to have changed him completely, to his eventual execution by the state of Utah who shot four metal cased bullets through his heart. Petty crook Gilmore needs money for a truck he has set his heart on, and over the period of 24 hours in separate cases he robs and executes two men, shooting point-blank into the back of their heads, the idea being to eliminate any witnesses & in his mind any chance of going back to jail, of being told what to do, of going somewhere he has existed since he was thrown into reform school as child. Gilmores acceptance of his punishment was down to the fact that he just could not live that life anymore, death or freedom nothing in-between. The issue being that those things, those strains that are so hard for us all can be reacted differently to by somebody who has spent so long in violent institutions such as a prison in America in the 50’s, 60’s & 70’s (I am not sure they are too much better now.). The story explains how Gary Gilmore, a 35 year old hardened criminal, who has already spent 20 years in jail, is paroled to his family in the Mormon state of Utah, he gets a job & gets a girlfriend (Nicole Baker), he breaks up with her, usual stuff seemingly. The section about Gilmores execution became emotionally draining, I read it in mid-August in my Mum & Dads back garden with sun beating down on me, if it had been a gloomy, I could not have done it, it could well have have been just too sad.
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There is plenty for pro & anti-death penalty supporters to quote or get they’re teeth into, I am anti-capital punishment, but found some of the pro quotes about as convincing as I have ever heard. Brutal & honest, no stone is left unturned, no-one is left unquestioned and it never attempts to make moral judgements beyond those that are self-evident.
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Mailer will show reasons, will take you on a trip into the depths of human depravity, the way people are behind closed doors, the way we think at our worst. You will understand how a man gets to that point, why he kills – without falling into woolly-minded excuse mongering. The writer will walk in the shoes of a cold hearted killer, of the victim, the lover and friend & acquaintance. Mailer is an easy read, a classic English-language storyteller unravelling complexities and making them understood & the people he writes about understandable and uncomfortably empathetic. A few words about Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer-Prize winning opus based on the events surrounding the execution of the double murderer Gary Gilmore.