Christopher Eugene Brooks was convicted of the capital
murder of 23-year-old Jo Deann Campbell, a woman he met when they
worked at a camp in upstate New York.
According to the court record, Ms Campbell was seen
speaking
to Brooks at a restaurant where she worked on 30 December 1992, and
later told a friend someone was spending the night in her living room.
The next day, police found her partially clothed body under the bed in
her apartment in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood.
Prosecutors
said she had been bludgeoned with an 8lbs dumbbell and sexually
assaulted. Brooks was pronounced dead at 6.38pm, after the US Supreme
Court had denied a last-minute defence request for a stay of execution.
His final words were: "I hope this brings closure to
everybody. I will take you with me in my heart... I love y'all. Bye. I
love y'all."
A prison chaplain held his hand and prayed with him as the
first drug, a sedative, was administered. It was the first execution
since Alabama announced in 2014
that it was changing two of the three drugs it uses for lethal
injections - including switching to the sedative midazolam.
A jury convicted Brooks in 1993 of capital murder, robbery, burglary and rape.
His bloody fingerprint was found on a door handle in Ms
Campbell's bedroom and a palm print was found on her ankle, according to
court records.
Brooks was later found with her car keys and had cashed her paycheck.
Lawyers for Brooks had argued another man who was at the apartment that night could have committed the killing.
Corrine Campbell said her sister was very trusting, but had no idea whom she had invited to stay when Brooks arrived uninvited.
"She was young, energetic, bubbly, hard-working. The young lady had no enemies." she said.
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