Alabama executes convicted rapist-murderer, prison official says
By REUTERSUpdated: JANUARY 22, 2016 04:47
The state of Alabama on Thursday executed a 44-year-old man convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 1992, a prison official said, the first execution in that state since 2013.Christopher Brooks, was pronounced dead from lethal injection at 6:38 p.m. CST at the state's death chamber in Atmore, prison spokesman Bob Horton said.Brooks' was the third US execution of the year, coming just one day after an execution in Texas.
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