SYND 2 12 76 INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT WHITE CONDEMNED TO DEATH IN PENITENTIARY

(12 Feb 1976) The imminent execution of condemned murderer Gary Gilmore in Utah, USA, has aroused wide-spread protest in America. but Gilmore, who will be the first American to be executed for nearly ten years, insists on facing the firing squad, and refuses to appeal against the death sentence. Also in Texas, Robert Excel White is to be executed next Friday, like Gilmore, at his own insistence.He has dismissed the lawyer who is trying to save him from the electric chair. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ed337d88a706ed86804a9ae757900fb4

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