The Executioner's Song (film) The Executioner's Song (film) The Executioner's Song is a 1982 made-for-television film adaptation of Norman Mailer's 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The film is directed by Lawrence Schiller from a screenplay by Mailer. The movie is about the final nine months of the life of Gary Gilmore, beginning with his release from prison at the age of 35 after serving 12 years for robbery in Indiana. He is allowed to fly to Utah to live with Brenda Nicol, a distant cousin who was close to him and agrees to sponsor him. She tries to help him get
Arthur Hutchinson (murderer) Arthur Hutchinson (murderer) Arthur Hutchinson (born 19 February 1941) is an English convicted triple murderer. Born in Hartlepool, County Durham he attained notoriety in 1984 when he was convicted of three murders committed in Dore, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, on 23 October 1983. He has remained in prison ever since, and since 2008 has made a number of legal challenges to overturn a ruling by the Home Office that his life sentence should mean life and that he should never be paroled. Hutchinson had already spent more than five years in prison for the attempted murder of his brother-in-law. On the