Demetrius Terrence Frazier (October 29, 1972 – February 6, 2025) was an American convicted murderer and serial rapist executed in Alabama for the 1991 rape and murder of 40-year-old Pauline Brown, after a robbery on November 27, 1991. Frazier confessed to Brown's murder after his arrest in Detroit, Michigan, for the 1992 murder of 14-year-old Crystal Kendrick in Michigan, whom he had shot to ...

7 hours ago · Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of Pauline Brown, 41.

6 hours ago · Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 murder of Pauline Brown at the Holman Correctional Facility.

14 hours ago · "Demetrius Frazier was a monster who brutally took the lives of two innocent woman and left behind a trail of unspeakable violence," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement.

12 hours ago · 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 ...

2 days ago · 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.

1 day ago · 1 of 3 | . Michigan resident Beverly Leaf stands in solidarity with Carol Frazier, mother of Demetrius Frazier, as she pleads publicly Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Lansing, Mich., to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to bring home her son Demetrius, a Detroit man convicted of rape and a separate murder of a 14-year-old in the early 1990s, who was serving a life sentence when he was charged with another ...

14 hours ago · 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 ...

1 day ago · On September 1, 1991, Demetrius Frazier broke into the Detroit home of Jacqueline Gresham through a window and, armed with a knife and wearing Gresham’s son’s T-shirt over his face as a makeshift mask, and confronted her. Fearing for the safety of the children in the house, Gresham cooperated with Frazier, who brutally raped her multiple ...

1 day ago · The state of Alabama executed Demetrius Terrence Frazier by nitrogen gas Thursday evening for the rape and murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham in 1991. Frazier, 52, the fourth person the state has executed by nitrogen gas, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m., according to Gov. Kay Ivey’s office.