Demetrius Frazier’s lawyers are hoping that before he is taken to the execution chamber, MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will ask Alabama to halt the execution and send him back north.

"Demetrius Frazier was a monster who brutally took the lives of two ... without paternal support and guidance and he was briefly in the custody of social services, according to Michigan Department of Corrections pre-sentence investigation reports obtained ...

Scheduled to die Thursday in Alabama, Frazier would be the first man to be executed while technically under the state of Michigan’s legal custody.