Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening in Alabama for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier was convicted of breaking into Brown's Birmingham apartment, raping her, and fatally shooting her.
If the execution proceeds, it will mark the nation's fourth use of nitrogen gas for capital punishment. Alabama introduced this method last year, with Frazier potentially becoming the first inmate to be executed using nitrogen gas in the state this year.
