Demetrius Terrence Frazier, convicted of murder in 1991, is scheduled for execution in Alabama. This would be the third execution in the US in 2025 and the first in Alabama this year. Frazier's advocates have appealed to the Michigan governor to intervene, arguing that he has changed and repented. However, the Michigan attorney general has stated that the state does not want Frazier returned.
If carried out, his execution will be the third in the United States in 2025 and the first in Alabama this year.Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown.
Prosecutors said Frazier raped and shot her after breaking into her Birmingham apartment.Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death using the method last year. The method involves placing a respirator gas mask over the person's face to replace breathable air with pure nitrogen gas, causing death by lack of oxygen. Frazier had no pending court appeals in the hours leading up to his execution. His advocates instead made a plea to the governor in another state to intercede. Frazier’s mother and death penalty opponents asked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to bring Frazier back to Michigan, where he was serving a life sentence for the murder of a 14-year-old girl before he was turned over to Alabama’s death row. Michigan does not have the death penalty.“I know my son has changed. Demetrius has repented,” his mother, Carol Frazier, wrote in a letter. “Please don’t let Alabama kill my son," she added. Whitmer has not commented on the request. However, the Michigan attorney general’s office wrote in a January court filing that the state did not want Frazier back. “While Michigan takes no position on the imposition of the death penalty in this case, Michigan does not seek to return Frazier to a Michigan correctional facility,” state attorneys wrote. Frazier was convicted of separate killings in 1991 in Alabama and in 1992 in Michigan, but he was convicted in the Michigan case first. Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly Prosecutors said on Nov. 27, 1991, that Frazier, then 19, broke into Brown’s apartment through a window while she was asleep. Prosecutors said he demanded money and raped Brown at gunpoint after she gave him $80 from her purse. He then shot her in the head. He later returned to the apartment to have a snack and look for money, prosecutors said.He was sentenced to life in prison in Michigan for the 1992 murder of 14-year-old Crystal Kendrick. Then in 1996, an Alabama jury convicted him of murdering Brown and recommended by a vote of 10-2 that he receive a death sentence. All states but two — Alabama and Florida — now require a unanimous agreement for a death sentence. Frazier remained in Michigan custody until 2011 when the then-governors of the two states agreed to move him to Alabama’s death row. A federal judge last week rejected a request to block Frazier's execution. His attorneys argued the new execution method does not work as quickly as the state promised. Media witnesses, including The Associated Press, described how those put to death with the method shook on the gurney at the start of their executions. The judge ruled that the descriptions of the prior three executions do not support a finding that any of the men “experienced severe psychological pain or distress over and above what is inherent in any execution.”
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