Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said it was “unfortunate” for Alabama to execute a Detroit native who was sentenced to murder and rape.
Whitmer said Demetrius Frasier’s impending execution was “from her hands.” schedule To execute the statement. Frasier, 52, from Detroit, was set to face the death penalty for 41-year-old Pauline Brown’s 1991 rape and murder in Birmingham, Alabama.
“It’s in the hands of [Gov.] Kay Ivy,” Whitmer told reporters.
Frazier was 19 years old at the time. Convicted After he breaks into her apartment, he kills Brown, rapes her at the muzzle, and fatally shoots her. Prosecutors detail that he asked her for $80 and received $80, shot her in the head, and later returned to the apartment to find more money and have snacks. His criminal history also includes the 1992 murder of 14-year-old Crystal Kendrick of Michigan.
update: @govwhitemer Alabama’s execution says that this is out of her hands for native Detroit @onetoughnerd “Unfortunately… I sent him there.”
Alabama is scheduled to perform Demetrius Frazier within an hour for the 1991 rape and murder.https://t.co/uty6dqnhqq
– Chad Livengood (@chadlivengood) February 6, 2025
His execution set at 7pm has confirmed that the Alabama Department of Corrections marks the state’s first death penalty use this year and its third use in the US in 2025. Nitrogen gas as a method of conducting.
In court filings starting in January, the Michigan Attorney General’s Office said Michigan does not want Frasier to return. “Michigan is in no position to impose the death penalty in this case, but Michigan is not trying to return Frezier to Michigan correctional facilities,” the state lawyer wrote. (Related: Supreme Court refuses to stop Alabama from executing prisoners with nitrogen gas)
Alabama carried out its first nitrogen gas run when Kenneth Smith, 58, ran in January 2024, shortly after the Supreme Court refused to make an effort to stop the method. In his final words, Smith criticized the state’s execution process as a “setback.”
Frazier’s family reached out to Whitmer and urged him to intervene and promote his transfer to Michigan, where he was able to serve life sentences. This was officially abolished in 1847 a plea based on years of opposition to the Michigan death penalty. However, the actions of her predecessor, former Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, allowed Fragier to be handed over to Alabama in 2011, pointing out that “I unfortunately sent him there.” .
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