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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.
The first prisoner in Vietnam to be executed by lethal injection, on August 6, 2013, was 27-year-old Nguyen Anh Tuan, arrested for murder and robbery. [41] Between 2013 and 2016, 429 prisoners were executed by this method in the country.
Corcoran would be Indiana's first execution in 15 years. Indiana officials have not executed an inmate since Dec. 11, 2009, when Matthew Eric Wrinkles died by lethal injection for the 1994 murders ...
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 ...
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 ...
Manuel Martínez Coronado (1964 or 1965 – 10 February 1998) was a Guatemalan mass murderer, convicted for the killing of seven people on 17 May 1995.Coronado was sentenced to death for the murders, and was executed in 1998, the first execution by lethal injection in Guatemala.
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 ...