Alabama Sets Mid-October Execution Date for Man Who Killed 5 in Ax and Gun Attack

MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Alabama has set a mid-October execution date for a man who admitted to killing five people with an axe and gun and later told a judge he was dropping his appeals so he could be put to death. Derrick Dearman, 35, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Oct. 17 at a south Alabama prison. That date was set Tuesday by Gov. Kay Ivey after the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the death sentence, according to Supreme Court records. Dearman was sentenced to death after pleading guilty to killing five members of his then-girlfriend’s family during an Aug. 20, 2016, rampage at their rural Mobile County home near Citronelle in southwest Alabama....