‘There Is No Other Choice’ – One America News Network
OAN’s Brooke Mallory
9:39 AM – Thursday, April 11, 2023
A death row inmate from Alabama has fought his sentence for nearly six years after being found guilty of the murders of five people, including a pregnant mother. However, he now claims that he has urged authorities to execute him.
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Derrick Dearman, 35, says that it is time for “justice to be delivered” and that his execution would be “the right thing to do.”
“I don’t want to die,” Dearman told CNN in a phone interview on Friday. “But I feel it in my heart that this is the only option that would help the victims’ families get the closure they need to move forward.”
“I made peace with my decision.”
According to a sentencing order filed in the case, Dearman broke into a home in the small Alabama town of Citronelle early on August 20th, 2016. He proceeded to walk through the house, utilizing a shotgun, an axe, and a .45 pistol, to attack each of the five inhabitants one by one while high on hard drugs.
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