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. Frazier, 52, was convicted of capital murder for breaking into Pauline Brown’s Birmingham apartment and raping her at gunpoint before killing her when he was 19.

Demetrius Terrance Frazier was the fourth person executed in the United States using nitrogen hypoxia, which involves replacing breathable air with pure nitrogen gas

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

Alabama’s plan to execute Demetrius Frazier on Thursday could be complicated if the governor of Michigan attempts to intervene. Frazier, convicted of the 1991 rape and murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham,

The US Attorney General has agreed to transfer a man convicted of a 2003 murder in Owasso to Oklahoma to face execution.

An inmate facing execution in Oklahoma will be transferred back to the state from a federal prison in Louisiana to carry out his sentence.