Executed
Charlie Brooks
Charlie Brooks, 40, was executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection on December 7, 1982, at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Walker County. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice lists the cause of death as execution by lethal injection and records it as the first lethal injection execution in the state. The agency's records, which list him as Black, are the only accounts of his death in these sources.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.