Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at gunpoint, and killing her.

Alabama is scheduled to execute murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the 1991 rape and murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown.

Following the prison warden reading Frazier's death warrant, he issued his final statement. "First of all, I want to apologize" to friends and family of ... to plan. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who ...

I pray for her family that all these years later ... when Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith in January of 2024. Frazier is now the fourth inmate to die by inhalation of nitrogen gas.

"I want to apologize to the family and friends of ... she observed. Frazier's execution comes a little more than a year after Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person in the U.S. to be ...