"Alabama Death Row Inmate Requests Execution to Provide Closure for Victims' Families"

Derrick Dearman, a death row inmate in Alabama convicted of murdering five people in 2016, has requested to drop his appeals and be executed in order to provide closure for the victims' families. He acknowledges his past drug use as a factor in his crimes but believes it doesn't excuse his actions. Dearman wants to be executed by lethal injection and expresses concern about the state's history of botched executions.