The Alabama Supreme Court has sentenced Derrick Dearman to death next week for killing five people and an unborn child in 2016.
The court granted an order to execute Dearman on Monday, following his conviction for the murders of Joseph Adam Turner, Robert Lee Brown, Chelsea Marie Reed, Justin Kaleb Reed, and Shannon Melissa Randall in Citronelle. The execution will take place between midnight October 17 and 6 a.m. October 18.
The execution will take place at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.
On August 20, 2016, authorities found Dearman guilty of murdering the people at a residence where they were sleeping. Authorities in Mississippi later identified Dearman as the suspect, who allegedly used an ax and pistols to commit the murders. Dearman eventually pleaded guilty in the case
