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The Sundowns  -  Gilmore's Last Request Today's topical song is all about an extremely highly publicized execution in Utah.  On January 17, 1977 the state of Utah executed convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, marking the first time a prisoner the United States had been executed since 1967, when the state of Colorado put Luis Jose Monge to death.  Monge's death was followed by an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment that gained formal legal backing in 1972 when the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia brought all death penalty sentences to a temporary halt. [...]

• Gilmore's Last Request - Sundowns