THE FIRST PERSON TO DIE BY LETHAL INJECTION IN THE U.S: CHARLES BROOKS JR. (SEPTEMBER 1, 1942 TO DECEMBER 7, 1942)

 

Charles Brooks, Jr.,

Charles Brooks, Jr., (September 1, 1942 – December 7, 1982) 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 African-American to be executed anywhere in the United States of America in the post-Gregg era.