Charlie Brooks Jr. was executed in Texas 40 years ago on Tuesday.
Charlie Brooks Jr. was executed Dec 7, 1982 for killing a mechanic in Fort Worth in 1976. He was the first to die from lethal injection.., with “I was Born to Die” tattooed on his left forearm, was the first person in the United States to be executed by injection 40 years ago this week in Huntsville.executed in TexasHis death on Dec. 7, 1982 was praised as “hope for victims” by the mother of the man he killed.
“It may well be, as horrible as it is to contemplate, that the state of Texas executed the wrong man at 12:09 a.m. last night,” said Strickland, who failed to persuade the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant a 60-day reprieve. published in February 1983. In a series of taped interviews with Dick J. Reavis, then the associate editor of Texas Monthly, Brooks maintained that he did not intentionally kill Gregory and that he was on drugs at the time.San Antonio murderess Emma 'Straight Eight' Oliver was among first women to be sentenced to die in Texas
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