Alabama puts man to death in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas

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 murder in Alabama and is scheduled to be executed there Feb. 6. (Jake May/MLive.com/The Flint Journal via AP)