# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-brooks-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:49:11.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-brooks-jr"
name: "Charles Brooks, Jr."
slug: "charles-brooks-jr"
description: "The execution of Charles Brooks Jr., also known as Shareef Ahmad Abdul-Rahim, was carried out on December 7, 1982, at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. Brooks Jr., then 34, murdered 26-year-old mechanic David Preston Gregory in Fort Worth, Texas. Brooks Jr. was convicted and sentenced to death in 1977. Brooks Jr. was the first person in the United States to be executed using the, then, newly adopted method of lethal injection. He was also the first prisoner executed in Texas since 1964, and the first African-American to be executed anywhere in the United States in the post-Gregg era."
tagline: "Convicted murderer (1942–1982)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1942-09-01"
deathDate: "1982-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.19492933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brooks"
    title: "Charles Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز بروكس جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чарлс Брукс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brooks"
    title: "Charles Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brooks_(M%C3%B6rder)"
    title: "Charlie Brooks (Mörder)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_Brooks_Jr."
    title: "Execution of Charles Brooks Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brooks"
    title: "Charles Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brooks"
    title: "Charles Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brooks%2C_Jr."
    title: "Charles Brooks, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6'%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%A1_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A1_%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A8"
    title: "צ'ארלס ברוקס ג'וניור"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brooks"
    title: "Charles Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brooks"
    title: "Charles Brooks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7"
    title: "Брукс, Чарльз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066846"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump