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07/12/1982 The first person in the USA is executed by lethal injection

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Joyce Easley on the execution of Charlie Brooks Jr. (Shareef Ahmad Abdul-Rahim) in 1982

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Derrek Brooks on his father's execution in 1982 in Texas

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Texas Uses Single-Drug Lethal Injection in Execution

Charles Brooks Jr. was a convicted murderer who was the first person in the United States to be executed using lethal injection. He was the first prisoner executed in Texas since 1964, and the first Black to be executed anywhere in the United States of America in the post-Gregg era.
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    • Conversion to Islam and execution