Abusive boyfriend who hacked and shot five of his girlfriend's family to death after she fled is executed after telling court he deserved to die

Daily Mail UK ^ | October 17, 2024 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Alabama has executed a man who dropped his appeal and asked to be put to death for murdering five people in their beds.

Derrick Dearman, 36, admitted to killing five members of his estranged girlfriend's family with an axe and gun during a drug-fueled rampage August 20, 2016.

He was pronounced dead at 6.14pm on Thursday at Holman Prison in southern Alabama, his last words a plea for forgiveness.

'Forgive me. This is not for me. This is for you... I've taken so much,' he said while strapped to the gurney in the execution chamber.

He closed by telling his own family, 'Y'all already know I love y'all.' Some of his words were inaudible.

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The lethal injection was carried out after Dearman dropped his appeals this year and asked that his execution go forward.

'I am guilty,' he wrote in an April letter to a judge, adding that 'it´s not fair to the victims or their families to keep prolonging the justice that they so rightly deserve'.

[FlingWingFlyer]

And America is a little bit “better place” this morning. A smiley face kind of morning.

[SJSAMPLE]

Is it me, or did all five of the victims have mugshots?

[Oberon]

It's an awful crime and he got what he deserved.

Still, did you notice that all the victims appear to have had mugshots?

[Oberon]

You saw the same thing I did.

[dfwgator]

Bye.

[ronnie raygun]

lethal injection is to kind

[Red Badger]

Those are Driver’s License photos...............

[Red Badger]

Those are Driver’s License photos...............

[thegagline]

It looks like they all drank from the same very shallow gene pool.

[marktwain]

He dies remorseful and begging for forgiveness.

May he meet Jesus.

[circlecity]

“ lethal injection is to kind”.

I dunno. I rather die by firing squad than lethal injection.

[rlmorel]

I guess all drivers license photos have that mug-shot look to them.

[rlmorel]

I am on the journey to become born again, and one of the startling realizations was that even someone like Jeffrey Dahlmer could be redeemed was powerful.

[PghBaldy]

Shocking how quickly this was done compared to most death-penalty cases.

[Red Badger]

He fired his attorneys and requested execution.

The State of Alabama obliged...............

[null and void]

Derrick Dearman.

[Red Badger]

[null and void]

Same neck tat.

And here I thought it was only “teens” or “yutes” who got much younger photos published...

[Phil Southern]

As already noted those are DL photos. Pretty sure these were released in court, or by LE as a group just because they were easily accessible by officials. If the families had a say, they wouldn’t probably given a better pic. Who likes their ID photo?

By the way, Alabama is one state that sends all DL photos to the FEDS for facial recognition analysis and inclustion into a national/(global?) database.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-19-579t.pdf