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Title: Narrative Nonfiction and the Death Penalty: Justice, Media, and Myth in Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song

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Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song (1979) blurs the boundaries between journalism and the novel, recounting the life and death of Gary Gilmore, the first person executed in the United States after the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty. This paper examines how Mailer’s “fact as art” approach shapes public perception of capital punishment, individual agency, and the media’s role in constructing criminal celebrity. Through close analysis of the book’s structure—its division into “Western Voices” and “Eastern Voices”—and its documentary style, the paper argues that Mailer avoids overt moral judgment while nevertheless exposing systemic failures in legal and psychological frameworks. Ultimately, The Executioner’s Song functions as a cultural autopsy of post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, questioning whether any narrative—legal or literary—can truly capture a condemned man’s humanity. The paper concludes that Mailer’s ambivalent realism leaves readers complicit in the spectacle of execution.

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