- Alabama has announced its fourth execution will be by nitrogen gas, scheduled for February 6, 2025, for Demetrius Terrence Frazier.
- Frazier was convicted in 1991 for the murder of Pauline Brown during a burglary in Birmingham.
- This marks Alabama’s first scheduled execution of 2025 and follows three executions by nitrogen gas in the previous year.
- There is ongoing debate and potential legal challenges regarding the execution method, with critics claiming it may cause conscious suffocation.
- The state maintains the method provides a quick death, despite claims from legal representatives of Frazier about suffering during the procedure.
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