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 ...

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 ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the ...

The states of Alabama and Texas carried out one execution each last week, bringing the number of executions in 2025 to three. Five more executions are scheduled between now and March 20—two in ...

Though Alabama has stepped up its execution rate in recent months, Hammonds still awaits his date with death and indications are that time may be coming in the not-too-distant future.

On February 6, Alabama tortured Demetrius Frazier to death. It was the fourth time the state has used what I’ve coined its “gruesome and gasping nitrogen-gassings” to dispatch a condemned man.