Brooks was the first person in the United States to be executed using lethal injection by a mixture of Sodium Thipental aka Thruth Drug, Pancuronum Bromide and Potassium Chloride. Brooks' last meal request was for a T-bone steak, french fries, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, biscuits, peach cobbler and iced tea. (7 December 1982)
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