Demetrius Terrence Frazier is scheduled to be executed in February 2025 after he was convicted of capital murder. (Alabama Department of Corrections)
After executing more people than any other state in 2024, Alabama will carry out its first this year in early February.
On Tuesday, Gov. Kay Ivey published a letter she sent to John Hamm, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, indicating that she scheduled the execution of Demetrius Terrence Frazier for Feb. 6 by nitrogen gas.
Frazier was convicted of capital murder and sentenced him to death in June 1996.
According to court documents, five years earlier, Frazier broke into a Birmingham apartment, and raped and killed a woman who lived there. He was arrested a few months later in Detroit.
Frazier is set to be the fourth person that the state has executed using nitrogen gas since Alabama approved the method in 2018. In January 2024, the state put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death, followed by Alan Miller in September and Cary Dale Grayson in November.
Alabama executed six people last year.