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

After Alabama became the first state to execute a death row prisoner via nitrogen gas in January, the state is set to perform the second-ever execution on Thursday.

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

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

Demetrius Frazer is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991.

Despite arguments from proponents that "nitrogen gas inhalation would cause a death that would be peaceful and not cruel,” Emory University anesthesiology professor Joel Zivot added ...

Frazier is now the fourth inmate to die by inhalation of nitrogen gas. When Alabama was preparing to execute Smith, the state said once the gas started, he would lose consciousness "within seconds ...

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