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
The Sentence (The Outer Limits) guilt Henson felt over the innocent prisoner inadvertently caused his incarceration for what seemed a life sentence, one that caused him to regret his creation of the device. The Sentence (The Outer Limits) "The Sentence" is an episode of "The Outer Limits" television series. It first aired on 4 August 1996, and is the final episode of the second season. Dr. Jack Henson creates a "Virtual Prison" — an environment in which convicts experience a life sentence in a harsh regime in just a few hours of real time. In a near future plagued by prison overcrowding, Dr. Henson presents