An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in Alabama in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her after breaking into her Birmingham apartment, according to prosecutors. Frazier’s final words before being executed were,

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in Alabama in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas. Demetrius Frazier,

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the fourth person in the U.S. to die by the controversial method.

Alabama executed a man on Thursday who was convicted in the 1991 rape, robbery and murder of a Birmingham woman, becoming the fourth person Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was executed at the William C.