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
Dharampal Singh (murderer) and his brother Nirmal were awarded death penalty for the murders in 1997. The sentence was upheld by the High Court a year later. Later in 1999, the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of Nirmal to life imprisonment retaining Dharampal's death sentence Later in January 2014 high court commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment on the pretext that the government took around thirteen years to decide on his mercy petition. Dharampal Singh (murderer) Dharampal Singh is from Sonipat, Haryana. He is serving life imprisonment for killing five family members of a woman in 1993 who got him into