http://b985.fm Central Maine's Country Thu, 23 May 2013 21:58:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://b985.fm/first-death-row-lethal-injection/ http://b985.fm/first-death-row-lethal-injection/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:39:11 +0000 Randy McCoy http://b985.fm/?p=40798 Today, December 7th, 1982 was the first execution by lethal injection. At the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Alabama, Charles Brooks Jr. was put to death for the murder of an auto mechanic using a three phase injection to assure his death.

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