Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out ...

Frazier is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Critics say the method ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

Scheduled to die Thursday in Alabama, Frazier would be the first man to be executed while technically under the state of ...

A serial rapist and murderer is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama on Thursday, the fourth use of the ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

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 ...

Governor Landry emphasized that this method will ensure Louisiana’s ability to carry out death sentences in a timely and effective manner.