Brooks' Execution

A man convicted of the 1992 rape and beating death of a woman has been put to death in Alabama's first execution in more than two years.  Authorities say 43-year-old Christopher Eugene Brooks received a lethal injection last night in a procedure starting at 6:06 p.m. local time Thursday at a state prison in Atmore.  Corrections Department spokesman Bob Horton says Brooks was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m.  Brooks was condemned for the slaying of 23-year-old Jo Deann Campbell on New Year's Eve of that year.  Prosecutors said Campbell was beaten in her apartment with a dumbell and sexually assaulted.  The execution was the first using Alabama's new lethal drug combination.