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Gary Gilmore, the notorious assassin immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for their own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Author Mikal Gilmore is his younger sibling. In Picture in one's Heart, he tells the spectacular story of the extremely dysfunctional family: their mother, a blacksheep child of unforgiving Mormon producers; their father, a drunk, thief, and con-man. It had been a household ruined with a history of child-abuse, alcoholism, murder, adultery, and crime.