Playboy Interview: Gary Gilmore
April, 1977
Why interview Gary Gilmore?Why further glorify someone who cold-bloodedly killed two young men and became famous only because of a publicly expressed death wish?Why give this criminal a posthumous format that might tempt others to try to "outcool" Gilmore's disdain for life--his own and that of others--and thus become celebrated by journalists and the public?These questions, which might have been answered on purely journalistic grounds (by simply publishing a story nearly every other p...
