a man who killed "J.B." Brooks, an armored car guard in 1997 was executed...

a man who killed "J.B." Brooks, an armored car guard in 1997 was executed by lethal injection in the Broad River Capital Punishment Facility. Calvin Alphonso Shuler, 40, black, was declared dead at 6:17 p.m. Shuler was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of James Brooks during an armed
robbery at an armored van on 3 December 1997. Brooks was 77. Shuler becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in South Carolina, the 26th this year in the USA and the 1083rd overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.