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FRIDAY UPDATE: EXECUTION: DERRICK DEARMAN


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

ATMORE—


Friday update:


Derrick Dearman, who admitted to committing five murders in Citronelle, was executed in Atmore Thursday evening. 


Dearman's official time of death was 6:14 p.m. Thursday, according to AL.com. 


The prison warden asked Dearman if he had any last words at 5:55 p.m.


"To the victims' families, forgive me," Dearman said. "This is not for me, this is for you. I've taken so much. To my family y'all already know I love you."


AL.com reported Dearman also seemed to try and speak after the execution process began, but those in the viewing rooms were unable to hear him. 


"(Dearman) himself has clearly stated his guilt and asked to move forward with his death sentence," Governor Kay Ivey said. "The state has obliged, and justice has been served. I pray for the loved ones of all these victims who loves were taken far too soon."


Thursday:


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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