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EXECUTION SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY: DERRICK DEARMAN


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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Oct 17 2024 4:48 PM

ATMORE— Alabama prepares to execute a man on Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and a gun during a "meth-fueled rampage" in 2016, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections.


Derrick Dearman, 36, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on October 17 at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.


Dearman dropped his appeals earlier in the year. "I am guilty, plain and simple," he told AL.com.


"I am willingly giving all that I can possibly give to try and repay a small portion of my debt to society for all the terrible things I've done," Dearman said in an audio recording sent to the Associated Press.


Dearman is to be the fifth person executed in Alabama in 2024.


He is charged with the murders of Shannon Melissa Randall, 35; Joseph Adam Turner, 26; Robert Lee Brown, 26; Justin Kaleb Reed, 23; and Chelsea Marie Reed (who was pregnant), 22, in Citronelle. Turner and Randall had a 3-month old son in the bed with them at the time of the murders, but the child was unharmed.


After attacking them, Dearman forced his girlfriend and the 3-month-old child into a vehicle and drove them to Mississippi. They were both later released.


Dearman's father urged him to submit to authorities afterward.


Dearman blamed the killings on methamphetamines, saying he was high when he committed the murders.


He initially pleaded not guilty, but he changed his plea, and a jury found him guilty and unanimously recommended a death sentence.


He has been on death row since 2018.



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