In the only state used by this protocol, the 52 -year -old African -American Dimitris Frezier, who was sentenced to 30 years ago for rape and woman,, a method that is strongly criticized and used for the fourth time.
His death was officially found at 18:36 (local time at 02:36 Greek time) in the Atmore prison, according to a statement by the US US State Department.
Its first application was recorded a year ago. The other states, where the death penalty continues to apply, usually use deadly injectable chemicals.
This method of execution, by which death is caused by hypoxia (lack of oxygen), is strongly criticized by the UN, which points out that it is not “tested” and may be a form of “torture”, “inhumane or humiliating treatment”, which It is prohibited under international law. The European Union, for its part, has described this method of execution “particularly tough”.
This is the third execution in the US this year. In 2024 they became 25 and 2023 24.
Alabama Department of Corrections via AP
Dimitri Frezier was sentenced to the penalties in 1996 for the rape and murder of 40 -year -old Paulin Brown, five years earlier in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. She had invaded the mother of the mother of two children, where she raped her and then murdered her with a bullet in the head.
A few years earlier, in Michigan, a state where the death penalty was not implemented, had been sentenced to serve a life sentence in that case for rape and murder of 14 -year -old Crystal Centric, and two other rape.
He was transferred to Alabama in 2011.
All appeals of the defense against his transfer from Michigan to Alabama and against the nitrogen inhalation method were rejected by US justice.
The death penalty, whose supporters are Donald Trump, has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states. In the other three (California, Oregon, Pennsylvania), a moratorium is applied to its imposition.
