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   Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, is scheduled to be executed in February after   
   being convicted of the November 1991 rape and murder of Pauline Brown, 40, in   
   Birmingham. Michigan supports Alabama’s efforts to have Frazier’s lawsuit   
   dismissed. (Alabama    
   Department of Corrections)   
      
   The state of Alabama executed Demetrius Terrence Frazier by nitrogen gas   
   Thursday evening  for the rape and murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham in   
   1991.   
      
   Frazier, 52, the fourth person the state has executed by nitrogen gas, was   
   pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m., according to Gov. Kay Ivey’s office.   
      
   “First of all, I want to apologize to the friends and family of Pauline   
   Brown, what happened to her should never have happened,” Frazier said when   
   he made his final statement. “I want to apologize to the Black community.”   
      
   Frazier also criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not intervening in   
   his case. Frazier was transferred to Alabama in 2011 while serving a life   
   sentence in Michigan for the 1992 murder of Crystal Kendrick, 14. His legal   
   team had urged Whitmer to    
   take custody of his case and have him transferred back to the state for the   
   crimes he committed in Michigan. Whitmer did not intervene.   
      
   A member of the Corrections staff adjusted Frazier’s mask at about 6:10 p.m.   
   and the nitrogen gas began to flow a few minutes afterward. Media witnesses   
   reported that Frazier struggled to breathe for several minutes during the   
   execution.   
      
   At one point in the execution, Frazier lifted his legs and his body twitched,   
   according to media witnesses. That is similar to what other witnesses observed   
   from the three other executions that the state carried out using nitrogen gas.   
      
   Witnesses said that they observed Frazier take his final breath at about 6:20   
   p.m.   
      
   “It went according to plan like our protocol says,” ADOC Commissioner John   
   Hamm said at a news conference following the execution.   
      
   The state executed Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas in January 2024. Alan   
   Eugene Miller was put to death under the method in September. Carey Dale   
   Grayson followed in November.   
      
   “In Alabama, we enforce the law,” Ivey said in a statement Thursday   
   evening. “You don’t come to our state and mess with our citizens and get   
   away with it.”   
      
   The governor said that justice was carried out on behalf of Brown and her   
   loved ones.   
      
   “I pray for her family that all these years later, they can continue healing   
   and have assurance that Demetrius Frazier cannot harm anyone else,” Ivey   
   said.   
      
   Frazier was convicted of Kendrick’s death in 1993 and sentenced to life in   
   prison. An Alabama  jury convicted Frazier of capital murder in 1996 and   
   recommended he be put to death by a vote of 10-2. While arguing that Frazier   
   should be returned to    
   Michigan, Frazier’s legal team also argued the nitrogen gas protocol   
   violated Frazier’s Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual   
   punishment, citing the distress that media witnesses reported among the men   
   who had previously been    
   subjected to it.   
      
   The federal courts rejected both arguments. Michigan Attorney General Dana   
   Nessel said they would not ask for Frazier to be returned to their state.   
      
      
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