Noall Wooton was the lead prosecutor of which person who demanded the death penalty for his own trial and was the first person to be executed in 1976?
Noall Wootton Noall Thurber Wootton (September 8, 1940 – April 27, 2006) was the Utah County District Attorney, in Utah, from 1974 to 1986. During his time in that role, he is most famous for being the lead prosecutor of Gary Gilmore, the first person to be executed after the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty. Wootton earned his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1961 and a J.D. from the University of Utah in 1964. Noall Wootton died at the age of 65 on April 27, 2006 due to cancer.
Kevin Barry Kevin Gerard Barry (20 January 1902 – 1 November 1920) was the first Irish republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. Barry was sentenced to death for his part in an Irish Volunteers operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers.