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    George Clifton Gilmore - Missouri Execution - August 31, 1990

    Summary of Offense: Convicted for killing an elderly woman in 1979

    Victim: Clarence Williams and Lottie Williams

    Time of Death: 12:10 a.m.

    Manner of execution: Lethal Injection

    Last Meal: None

    Final Statement: Declined

    Note: co-defendant Leonard M. Laws was executed on May 17, 1990.

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    State of Missouri v. George Clifton Gilmore

    650 S.W. 2d 627 (Mo.banc 1983)

    Case Facts: George Clifton Gilmore, his brother Norman, and Leonard Laws lived in a trailer with several members of the Gilmore family; all three men were unemployed. After some discussion, they decided the easiest way to make money would be to “rob old people.” They further agreed they would kill the victims in order to prevent them from identifying any of the three perpetrators.

    Late in the evening of October 28, 1980, the three met and decided to rob Clarence and Lottie Williams. In the early morning hours of October 29, 1980, they went to the Williams’s home, roused Mr. Williams, and convinced him to open his front door. They took him to his bedroom where he and Mrs. Williams were bound with clothesline. After ransacking the home and taking several items to their vehicle, defendant and Norman returned to the Williams’s bedroom. Defendant shot Mr. Williams with a twelve gauge shotgun; he reloaded the weapon and then shot Mrs. Williams. Thereafter, kerosene was spread throughout the home. Mr. Williams had not been killed by the first shotgun blast and attempted to escape when he saw the kerosene being spread throughout his home. Defendant stopped the escape by shooting Mr. Williams a second time.

    Several weeks after the murders, defendant discussed the crimes with two relatives, Robert Gilmore and Bobby DeClue. After confirming the story by a visit to the site of the Williams’s home and speaking to Norman Gilmore, DeClue and Robert Gilmore reported the incident to police and agreed to help apprehend the three perpetrators. On January 2, 1981, DeClue and Robert Gilmore tricked Leonard Laws and George Gilmore into leaving their trailer; they were then arrested at a police roadblock. Norman Gilmore was arrested at a house in Franklin County, Missouri.

    http://missourideathrow.com/2008/12/gilmore_george/

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    September 1, 1990

    Missouri Executes Man Convicted of Killing 5

    POTOSI, Mo., Aug. 31 — A man convicted of five murders was put to death by injection early today for killing an elderly woman 11 years ago.

    The condemned man, George C. Gilmore, was declared dead at 12:10 A.M. at the maximum-security Potosi Correctional Center in this small city in eastern Missouri, about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis.

    The authorities say Mr. Gilmore, who was 44 years old, and his partner, Leonard Laws, killed five people in a crime spree in the St. Louis, singling out elderly or helpless people for robbery and murder. Mr. Laws was executed in May. A brother, a niece and a fiancee who were not identified wept and covered their faces with their hands as officials announced that a mixture of sodium pentothal, Pavlon and potassium chloride had been delivered through a tube into the condemned man's arm.

    Strapped to a gurney and covered to his chin by a blanket, Mr. Gilmore strained at first to see his friends and appeared to say, ''I love you.'' Then he turned his head to the side and was still. Two minutes later he was declared dead.

    ''He had no last words,'' said Dale Riley, a prison spokesman. A series of appeals Thursday failed to stop the execution, the 137th nationwide and the fifth in Missouri since 1976, when the Supreme Court ruled that states could resume the use of capital punishment.

    Legal Appeals Fail

    The Supreme Court refused, by a 6-to-1 vote, to block Mr. Gilmore's death. Justice Thurgood Marshall, who opposes the death penalty in all circumstances, dissented. Justice Antonin Scalia did not take part in the case.

    Federal District Judge Edward L. Filippine, who was named to the bench by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in St. Louis, also dismissed Mr. Gilmore's appeals Thursday.

    Mr. Gilmore was executed for killing Mary Luella Watters, 83, in August 1979. He had also received the death sentence for three other murders and was given a life sentence for a fourth.

    Appeals filed for Mr. Gilmore by his lawyers, Kevin Collins and James Delworth, contended that mitigating evidence had not been considered earlier. Mr. Gilmore, whose parents were alcoholics, suffered fetal alcohol syndrome and organic brain damage, Mr. Delworth said.

    William L. Webster, the Missouri Attorney General, rejected those arguments.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/01/us...xecuted&st=nyt

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