Prosecutors said on Nov. 27, 1991, that Frazier, then 19, broke into Brown’s apartment through a window while she was asleep. Prosecutors said he demanded money and raped Brown at gunpoint after she gave him $80 from her purse. He then shot her in the head. He later returned to the apartment to have a snack and look for money, prosecutors said.

A serial rapist and murderer is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama, the fourth use of the controversial execution method in the southern state.

Demetrius Terrence Frazier is set to be executed with nitrogen gas for the rape and murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama.