Critics say it amounts to torture while proponents praise its effectiveness. If the execution proceeds, Frazier will be the third inmate executed in the U.S. in 2025. Demetrius Terrance Frazier ...

Demetrius Frazier was convicted of capital murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. If the execution proceeds, Frazier will be the third inmate executed in the U.S. in 2025.

Feb. 6 (UPI) --Alabama executed Demetrius Terrence Frazier by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday evening. Frazier, 52, was the first person executed in Alabama this year following his conviction in the ...

Frazier is facing a "barbaric, state-induced gasping and gruesome conscious suffocation," Stephen Cooper, a former assistant federal public defender in Montgomery, Alabama, wrote in a column ...