DEFYING GRAVITY/THE EXECUTIONER’S SONG A sad , but true story about Gary Mark Gilmore, a young American criminal , convicted of the senseless murder of two men, sentenced to a long term in prison, begged and then fought to be executed for his crimes because he preferred to die rather than rot in prison, All “details” on this unhappy man are, of course, on the Internet, including several clever personal quotes he “penned”, while behind bars. One of them was “I’ve got problems & if you sentence me to additional time, you will only compound them”. Also, this one :- “We are sentenced to DEATH, on the day we are born” The main reason for “this story” to my eLanka, readers however, is the fact that I “recorded” the song ” Defying Gravity” which was sung by the “Country Great” Waylon Jennings and dedicated to Gary Gilmore who was not ...