Four inmates executed by Alabama had illegal drugs in their system, reports show

Derrick Dearman appeared to be high on drugs in his Alabama prison in the days leading up to his execution

Derrick Dearman appeared to be high on drugs in his Alabama prison in the days leading up to his execution.

The convicted killer raged in phone calls and emails, anguishing over how his willingness to die for his crimes wouldn’t change the perception of him as an irredeemable monster.

And by the time he took his final breath, his longtime addiction to methamphetamine — the drug he blamed for fueling the murders of five people, including a pregnant woman, in 2016 — had consumed him to the end.

Dearman, 36, had meth in his body when Alabama put him to death by lethal injection in October 2024, according to a toxicology report confirming what eyewitnesses believed at the time.

He isn’t the only prisoner to be executed with narcotics in their system in Alabama recently.