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USA - Alabama. Derrick Dearman Asks to Be Executed

April 5, 2024:

April 5, 2024 - Alabama. Derrick Dearman Asks to Be Executed
Derrick Dearman tells NBC News that he has sent letters to Gov. Kay Ivey and other officials to let them know he is dropping his appeals. The 36-year-old says he's a little worried about the state's recent history of botched executions, but his mind is "focused on trying to make sure to do the right thing."
Dearman says he was high on meth when he murdered five people at a home, with a gun and an axe, in August 2016. He was convicted on 6 counts of murder because one of the victims, 22-year-old Chelsea Marie Reed, was 5 months pregnant.
The victims. Dearman also killed Shannon Melissa Randall, 35; Robert Lee Brown, 26; Justin Kaleb Reed, 23; and Joseph Adam Turner, 26. Turner was the brother of Laneta Lester, Dearman's estranged girlfriend, who moved in with the family to flee Dearman's domestic abuse, WKRG reports. After the murders, Dearman kidnapped Lester, along with Turner and Randall's 3-month-old baby. He turned himself in after traveling to his father's home.
Dearman says his decision doesn't mean that his fellow death row inmates deserve to die. "There's guys in general population that committed way worse crimes than half the guys on death row," he says. "There's some guys here on death row, if you would let them go today, they would never commit a crime and be productive members of society."
Dearman says he wants to be executed by lethal injection, not by nitrogen gas, which Alabama used for the 1st time earlier this year and plans to use again in an execution later this year.

https://www.newser.com/story/348658/mass-murderer-on-death-row-asks-to-be-executed.html