An Alabama prison executed a Detroit man Thursday evening after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declined to intervene, ignoring pleas from his family, attorneys, and death penalty opponents who argued she had the authority to demand his return to Michigan, where the death penalty has been abolished.

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

Demetrius T. Frazier, convicted of murdering a Detroit teen in 1992, was executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama after an unusual transfer from Michigan.