Alabama is gearing up to execute Derrick Dearman, a 36-year-old man who confessed to the brutal killings of five individuals during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016. Dearman, who is scheduled to face lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in south Alabama, pleaded guilty to the heinous crimes that shook the community.
The tragic incident unfolded when Dearman broke into a residence where his estranged girlfriend sought refuge. The victims, Shannon Melissa Randall, Joseph Adam Turner, Robert Lee Brown, Justin Kaleb Reed, and Chelsea Marie Reed, all related to each other, lost their lives in the horrific attack near Citronelle, about 33 miles north of Mobile.
