Alabama death row inmate Derrick Dearman asked to be executed despite having fought his death sentence for over five years. He pleaded guilty to capital murder charges in the grizzly 2016 killings of five people, including a pregnant woman.

He first appealed his execution in October 2018, just over two years after what court records called an “especially heinous” and “atrocious” attack that left five dead, as well as an unborn child. Dearman broke into a Citronelle, Alabama, home and slaughtered his victims one by one before fleeing the scene.