Eleven people, all male, were executed in the United States between 1976–1983, seven by electrocution, two by gas chamber, one by lethal injection, and one by firing squad. Gary Mark Gilmore was the first person to be executed since the U.S. death penalty reinstatement in 1976, and the first overall since Luis Monge in 1967. John Spenkelink, meanwhile, was the first person to be involuntarily executed since Aaron Mitchell, also in 1967. 1982 saw the first execution in the U.S. to use lethal injection with the execution of Charles Brooks Jr.