Alabama to execute man for killing 5 in what he says was a meth-fueled rampage
Associated Press
Two U.S. states plan to execute convicted killers Thursday. Alabama is preparing to put to death a man who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016. Derrick Dearman is to be executed by lethal injection at Holman prison in southern Alabama. He dropped his appeals this year to allow his execution to go forward. And in Texas, Robert Roberson is to be the nation’s first person put to death for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. He was convicted in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter.
