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Alabama executes death row inmate who pleaded guilty to killing five people in 2016
The state of Alabama executed death row inmate Derrick Dearman by lethal injection Thursday evening for the brutal axe killings of five people in 2016.
Alabama death row inmate who slaughtered five in savage drug-fuelled ax and gun frenzy to be executed
Derrick Dearman, 36, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in south Alabama
Alabama executes man who killed five, including pregnant woman, and welcomed his own death sentence
Dearman was sentenced to death for the 2016 murders of Joseph Adam Turner, 26, Robert Lee Brown, 26, Chelsea Marie Reed, 22, Justin Kaleb Reed, 23, and Shannon Melissa Randall, 35, in Mobile County, Alabama. Reed was five months pregnant.
'I am guilty:' Alabama inmate Derrick Dearman asks for death sentence to be carried out
Dearman says his death will bring justice to the families of the five people he killed with an ax and a gun, including a pregnant woman.
Alabama executes Derrick Dearman, man who killed 5 and asked to be put to death
Derrick Dearman, 36, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama. He pleaded guilty in a rampage that began when he broke into the home where his estranged girlfriend had taken refuge.
A death row inmate wrestled with guilt and addiction before his execution
When Derrick Dearman entered Alabama’s execution chamber Thursday evening, he was the fifth man the state put to death this year.
Alabama Death Row inmate Carey Dale Grayson’s lawyers propose changes to nitrogen gas execution
Carey Dale Grayson, 49, is set to die on Nov. 21. He would be the third Alabama inmate to die this year using nitrogen gas.
Texas Supreme Court halts death row inmate execution
The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday stayed the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson, just minutes after the state's highest criminal court had cleared the way for him to be put to death.
Alabama executes man who killed 5 and asked to be put to death
Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals and asked to be put to death.
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Derrick Dearman, who killed 5 in south Alabama axe murders, executed Thursday
Derrick Dearman fired his lawyers in April and gave up his appeals, volunteering to be executed by lethal injection.