Oct 9, 2021
6 min read
Looking Through Jerry Orbach’s Eyes
The organ donations I can’t stop thinking about
Before murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by a firing squad in 1977, he made the choice to become an organ donor, offering up his eyes, kidneys, pituitary glands, and liver. His whole execution captured the public imagination — he was the first person killed after the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. The…
