{"id":115529,"date":"2024-10-18T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T03:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115529"},"modified":"2024-10-18T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T03:32:53","slug":"alabama-executes-man-who-killed-5-and-asked-to-be-put-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115529","title":{"rendered":"Alabama executes man who killed 5 and asked to be put to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ATMORE, Ala. (AP) \u2014 Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-7fc8723b25fb47b0a1c6b5c421d5a923\">killing five people<\/a><\/span> with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals and asked to be put to death. <\/p>\n<p>Derrick Dearman, 36, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama. He pleaded guilty to the killings that prosecutors said began when he broke into the home where his estranged girlfriend had taken refuge.<\/p>\n<p>Strapped to a gurney in the Alabama execution chamber, Dearman spoke to the family members of the victims and to his own family in his final statement. \u201cForgive me. This is not for me. This is for you,\u201d he said to the victims\u2019 families before adding, \u201cI\u2019ve taken so much.\u201d He closed by telling his own family, \u201cY\u2019all already know I love y\u2019all.\u201d Some of his words were inaudible.<\/p>\n<p>The lethal injection was carried out after Dearman dropped his appeals this year and asked that his execution go forward. \u201cI am guilty,\u201d he wrote in an April letter to a judge, adding that \u201cit\u2019s not fair to the victims or their families to keep prolonging the justice that they so rightly deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dearman\u2019s execution was one of two planned Thursday in the U.S. Robert Roberson in Texas was scheduled to be the nation\u2019s first person put to death for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome, in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter. The Texas Supreme Court halted <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-execution-shaken-baby-syndrome-1ef99c052cc1630785ac5d6e2edfc9cb\">his execution<\/a><\/span> Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Killed on Aug. 20, 2016, at the home near Citronelle, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Mobile, were Shannon Melissa Randall, 35; Joseph Adam Turner, 26; Robert Lee Brown, 26; Justin Kaleb Reed, 23; and Chelsea Randall Reed, 22. Chelsea Reed, who was married to Justin Reed, was pregnant when she was killed. All of the victims were related by blood or marriage. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement read by the Alabama prison commissioner, a man who lost his daughter, sister and brother in the killings, wrote there were no words to describe the impact the murders had on him and his family. He said Dearman got to say a final goodbye to his family, but they did not. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI so long for a final goodbye to my daughter and I would have loved to meet my grandchild,\u201d Bryant Henry Randall, the father of Chelsea Randall Reed wrote. He said his siblings did not get to see their children grow up. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was stripped in many ways of happiness and the bond of family by your senseless act,\u201d he wrote of Dearman.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Brown, the father of Robert Lee Brown, told reporters that his family will \u201csuffer for the rest of their lives.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis don\u2019t bring nothing back,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t get my son back or any of them back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The execution started about 5:58 p.m., but it is unclear when the drugs began flowing. At one point, Dearman raised his head and looked around the chamber as if to inquire when they were starting. He soon after appeared to lose consciousness. <\/p>\n<p>His left arm moved slightly after a guard performed a consciousness check \u2014 which involves shouting his name and pinching his arm \u2014 to make sure he is not awake when the final lethal drugs are given. Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said Dearman was not awake and the arm movement was not a sign of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>When the curtains to the viewing room closed at about 6:08 p.m., his father, who was in the same viewing room as media witnesses, sobbed and repeatedly called out his son\u2019s name. <\/p>\n<p>The day before the killing, Joseph Turner, the brother of Dearman\u2019s girlfriend, brought her to their home after Dearman became abusive toward her, according to a judge\u2019s sentencing order.<\/p>\n<p>Dearman had shown up at the home multiple times that night asking to see his girlfriend and was told he could not stay there. Sometime after 3 a.m., he returned when all the victims were asleep, according to a judge\u2019s sentencing order. He worked his way through the house, attacking the victims with an ax taken from the yard and then with a gun found in the home, prosecutors said. He forced his girlfriend, who survived, to get in the car with him and drive to Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>As he was escorted to jail, Dearman blamed the rampage on drugs, telling reporters that he was <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fa3c2922f5004118b3e7cfd1e3b5003d\">high on methamphetamine<\/a><\/span> when he went into the home and that the \u201cdrugs were making me think things that weren\u2019t really there happening.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Dearman initially pleaded not guilty but changed his plea to guilty after firing his attorneys. Because it was a capital murder case, Alabama law required a jury to hear the evidence and determine whether the state had proven the case. The jury found Dearman guilty and unanimously recommended a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Before he dropped his appeal, Dearman\u2019s lawyers argued that his trial counsel failed to do enough to demonstrate Dearman\u2019s mental illness and \u201clack of competency to plead guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Equal Justice Initiative, which represented Dearman in the appeal, wrote on its website that Dearman \u201csuffered from lifelong and severe mental illness, including bipolar disorder with psychotic features\u201d and was executed \u201cdespite evidence that he suffers from serious mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/derrick-dearman-death-penalty-alabama-3bbb792e73b7c82faccea13ea8254009\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATMORE, Ala. 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