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Gordon Ray Church

Birth: 14 Sep 1960
Fillmore, Millard County, Utah, USA
Death: 23 Nov 1988 (aged 28)
Millard County, Utah, USA
Burial: Delta Cemetery

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Plot: Block 28, Lot 5, Plot 13
Memorial ID: 61653234 View Source

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David Gordon Church

1940–2013
Nancy Adele Nelson Church

1941–2023

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Created by: Karen Shurtz
Added: Nov 15, 2010
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61653234/gordon_ray-church: accessed ), memorial page for Gordon Ray Church (14 Sep 1960–23 Nov 1988), Find a Grave Memorial ID 61653234, citing Delta Cemetery, Delta, Millard County, Utah, USA; Maintained by Karen Shurtz (contributor 46956863).

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Nearly a decade before 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was beaten, tortured and left to die in a Wyoming field, there was Gordon Ray Church.

Just like Shepard, Church was brutally killed primarily because his attackers believed he was gay.

The 28-year-old Southern Utah University student was taken by two recent parolees to a remote location in Millard County, where the men attached jumper cables to his testicles, used the car battery to shock him and then sodomized Church with a tire iron to the extent that his liver was pierced. They then beat Church to death with a car jack before burying him in a shallow grave.

Unlike Shepard, Church’s killing was a decade too early to receive national recognition as an LGBT hate crime. There were no hate crime prevention acts or foundations created in his name.

In two separate trials, Michael Anthony Archuleta and Lance Conway Wood were both convicted of capital murder. Wood was sentenced to life in prison, while Archuleta, who was believed to have been the primary instigator, was sentenced to death.

More than 28 years later, Wood remains incarcerated in an Oregon prison while Archuleta is one of the nine men on Utah’s death row awaiting execution by lethal injection.

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