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Charles Brooks Jr. (September 1, 1942 – December 7, 1982), also known as Shareef Ahmad Abdul-Rahim, [1] was a convicted murderer who was the first person to be executed using lethal injection. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the first prisoner executed in Texas since 1964, and the first African-American to be executed anywhere in the United States ...
Mark James Asay was the first person executed by lethal injection using the drug etomidate. Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Louis Gaskin was executed in Florida in 2023 for a double murder.
On December 7, 1982, Texas became the first U.S. state and territory in the world to use lethal injection to carry out capital punishment, for the execution of Charles Brooks, Jr. [15] [16] The People's Republic of China began using this method in 1997, Guatemala in 1996, the Philippines in 1999, Thailand in 2003, and Taiwan in 2005. [ 6 ]
Owens’ execution was the culmination of a multi-year fight by South Carolina to resume the death penalty after the state ran out of the drugs needed to perform the lethal injection in 2011. In ...
History of lethal injection in S.C. South Carolina first adopted the method in 1995 as an alternative to the electric chair. Since then, 36 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection in the ...
South Carolina has executed its first death row inmate in 13 years for the murder of a convenience store clerk in 1997.. Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, died by lethal injection on Friday ...
Less than a month later, Echegaray was executed via lethal injection on February 5, 1999. Echegaray was told of the court ruling at noon, three hours before he was to die by lethal injection at Manila's New Bilibid Prison. He is the first man to be executed in the Philippines since 1976. Echegaray's final statement was:
Other states have resumed executions in recent years, but efforts to use a primary method of lethal injection have grown increasingly harder as drugmakers have pulled back on access to the ...