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Alabama executes man with nitrogen gas for 1991 murder and rape

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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 .

It was the first execution in Alabama this year and the third in the U.S. in 2025 , following a lethal injection Wednesday in Texas and another last Friday in South Carolina .

Frazier was sentenced to life in prison in Michigan for the 1992 murder of Crystal Kendrick , 14 .

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