17 hours ago · An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas. Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown.

16 hours ago · Demetrius Terrence Frazier was executed by nitrogen gas hypoxia in Alabama for the 1991 murder of Pauline Brown. Frazier was the fourth inmate to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method that has ...

18 hours ago · Alabama executed Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas on Thursday, making him the fourth inmate in the U.S. to be put to death by the controversial method since Alabama began using it last year.

1 day ago · 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.

1 day ago · Alabama executed 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.

1 day ago · Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death last year using the method. It involves placing a respirator gas mask over the person ...

1 day ago · Demetrius Frazer is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Alabama has used nitrogen gas on three other inmates in the past year.

Jan 26, 2024 · Only three states – Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi – have approved the use of nitrogen gas for capital punishment, and experts say there is no real blueprint for the execution method.

Jan 21, 2024 · Alabama will be allowed to put Smith to death with nitrogen gas later this month, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, clearing the way for what would be the nation’s first execution under a new method the inmate’s lawyers criticize as cruel and experimental.

Jan 25, 2024 · Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States that...