A convicted murderer and rapist was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday — 14 years after he was transferred to Alabama while serving a life sentence in Michigan for a separate murder. Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 murder of Pauline Brown at the Holman Correctional Facility.

Demetrius Frazier apologized to the loved ones of one of the women he murdered and uttered two final words before he was executed in Alabama via a controversial suffocation method

It is Alabama’s first execution for 2025 after having led the nation in 2024 with six executions -by either lethal injection or nitrogen gas.