US man on death row wants to be executed so that families of victims have 'justice'
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In the United States, a man who is a convicted killer on death row has said that he wants to be executed so the families of the people he killed in 2016 can have justice and get closure. The man, identified as Derrick Dearman, told NBC News that he has sent letters to Gov. Kay Ivey and other officials to inform them that he is dropping his appeals.
In a phone interview from prison, the 36-year-old said, "Now it’s time for the victims and their families to get the justice they rightly deserve to start the closure."
He also said that his decision doesn't mean that other inmates on death row should do the same. "There's guys in the general population that committed way worse crimes than half the guys on death row. There's some guys here on death row, if you would let them go today, they would never commit a crime and be productive members of society," he added.
Dearman murdered five people at a home in Citronelle, Alabama, with a gun and an axe in August 2016. He was high on meth when he committed the crime. One of the victims, 22-year-old Chelsea Marie Reed, was five months pregnant, hence, the judges had convicted him on six counts of murder.
Other victims were Shannon Melissa Randall (35), Robert Lee Brown (26), Justin Kaleb Reed (23), and Joseph Adam Turner (26). He had also kidnapped Lester, along with Turner and Randall's three-month-old baby, after the murders. He surrendered after travelling to his father's home, local reports mentioned.
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As per reports, he wants to be executed by lethal injection, not by nitrogen gas. Earlier this year, Alabama used nitrogen gas for the first time. It said that it will again use the same method in an execution later this year.