A antheral convicted of raping and murdering an Alabama pistillate seemed to knock Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer successful his last words earlier being enactment to decease by nitrogen gas, reports say.
Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dormant astatine 6:36 p.m. Thursday astatine a south Alabama prison pursuing the 1991 onslaught connected 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier antecedently was serving a beingness condemnation successful Michigan for the 1992 execution of 14-year-old Crystal Kendrick, but successful 2011, the then-governors of the 2 states agreed to determination him to Alabama’s decease row.
"If you cannot basal up for the constitution of Michigan, however are you going to basal up for the U.S. Constitution erstwhile you tally for president?" Frazier said Thursday successful an evident code to Whitmer, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
"Detroit strong. I emotion everyone connected decease row. Let's go," helium reportedly added.
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Demetrius Frazier and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Hours up of his execution, Frazier visited with his mother, sister and ineligible team. He had a last repast from Taco Bell that included burritos and a Mountain Dew brushed drink.
"I privation to apologize to the household and friends of Pauline Brown. What happened to Pauline Brown should person ne'er happened," Frazier besides said successful his last words.
Recently, Frazier’s parent and decease punishment opponents had pleaded to Whitmer to instrumentality Frazier backmost to his home authorities of Michigan to implicit his beingness sentence, according to The Associated Press.
Michigan does not person the decease penalty. Police had said Frazier confessed to sidesplitting Brown successful 1992 portion successful custody successful Michigan.
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Lizz Schallert, left, and Charles Keith, right, basal successful solidarity with Carol Frazier, parent of Demetrius Frazier, arsenic she pleads publically connected Jan. 28, successful Lansing, Michigan, for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to bring location her son. (Jake May/MLive.com/The Flint Journal via AP)
Whitmer told The Detroit News earlier the execution that her predecessor, Rick Snyder, "unfortunately" had "sent [Frazier] down there" and that the concern was retired of her control.
"It’s a truly pugnacious situation," she added. "I recognize the pleas and concerns. Michigan is not a decease punishment state."
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said successful a post-execution connection that justness was done.
"In Alabama, we enforce the law. You don’t travel to our authorities and messiness with our citizens and get distant with it," Ivey said. "Rapists and murderers are not invited connected our streets, and tonight, justness was carried retired for Pauline Brown and her loved ones."
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said pursuing Demetrius Frazier's execution that "You don’t travel to our authorities and messiness with our citizens and get distant with it." (AP/Vasha Hunt)
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Prosecutors said that connected Nov. 27, 1991, Frazier, past 19, broke into Brown’s flat successful Birmingham portion she was asleep. Prosecutors said helium demanded wealth and raped Brown astatine gunpoint aft she gave him $80 from her purse. He past changeable her successful the caput and returned aboriginal to person a snack and look for money, they said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is simply a newsman astatine Fox News Digital.