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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...

•The 'peace-loving' victim was popular in his neighbourhood of Glasgow •Hours before his death, he posted message advertising inter-faith meeting •Police confirmed all those currently involved in investigation were Muslim 'A man has been arrested after a popular Muslim shopkeeper was stabbed to death by another Muslim in a religiously motivated attack just hours after he had posted a message wishing 'a very happy Easter to my beloved Christian nation'. Asad Shah, 40, was set upon with a knife and had his head stamped on in a shocking attack outside his Glasgow newsagents shop just after 9pm last night. A...