Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said it’s “unfortunate” that Alabama is set to execute a Detroit native sentenced for murder and rape.
Whitmer said that the impending execution of Demetrius Frazier is “out of her hands,” just hours before Alabama was scheduled to carry out the sentence. Frazier, a 52-year-old Detroit native, was set to face the death penalty for the 1991 rape and murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Ala.
“It’s in the hands of [Gov.] Kay Ivey,” Whitmer told the reporters.
Frazier, then 19, was convicted of murdering Brown after he broke into her apartment, raped her at gunpoint, and fatally shot her. Prosecutors detailed that he demanded and received $80 from her, shot her in the head, and later returned to the apartment to search for more money and have a snack. His criminal record also includes the 1992 murder of 14-year-old…
