Derrick Dearman

Derrick Dearman executed for 2016 Alabama murders

Authorities executed Derrick Dearman on Thursday for the brutal 2016 murders of five people during a drug-induced rampage. Dearman, 36, confessed to the killings and ceased his appeals, allowing his lethal injection to proceed. Dearman was declared dead at 6:14 p.m. at Holman prison in southern Alabama. He had admitted guilt in a spree that began when he broke into…