Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her after breaking into her Birmingham apartment, according to prosecutors. Frazier’s final words before being executed were, “Detroit strong”, “I love everybody on Death Row,” and “Let’s go”, according to AL.com.

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.

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the fourth person in the U.S. to die by the controversial method.