Pauline Brown was described as a family-oriented woman and hard worker. She was raped and killed by Demetrius Frazier on Nov.

Alabama death row inmate Demetrius Frazier became the first person executed while in the custody of the state of Michigan Thursday night.

Frazier was the state’s first execution of 2025, and the fourth carried out by nitrogen hypoxia. Frazier was executed for the 1991 rape and murder of Pauline Brown. Prosecutors said Frazier broke into ...

A jury convicted Frazier, 52, of the capital murder, rape and robbery of Pauline Brown in her Birmingham ... that he had killed a woman in Alabama in 1991. Detroit officials contacted Birmingham ...