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Death penalty on hold as new survey outlines row
A 1977 AP survey finds 398 on U S death rows more than six months after Gary Gilmore's execution. Few are likely to be executed soon amid state reforms, with Florida, Arizona, Georgia and Texas among candidates. Supreme Court rulings reduced mandatory death sentences and many states altered laws to fit crimes, with electrocution most common method and race evenly represented on death rows.
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Gary Gilmore
Associated Press
Gilmore
US Supreme Court
Florida
Arizona
Georgia
Texas
Utah
Supreme Court
Convic
Tion
North Carolina
Mississippi
George Busbee
Charles H. Hill
Hill
Wayne Coleman
Carl Isaacs
George Dungee
Roland O’brien
Wilbur Charles Collins