UPDATE (6:40 p.m.): Alabama Prison Commissioner John Hamm shared details about the execution during a press conference. WKRG News 5 streamed the press conference live — which the video in the player above.
UPDATE (6:23 p.m.): Derrick Dearman has been executed. His time of death was 6:14 p.m.
“Six lives, including an unborn baby, were gruesomely taken by Mr. Dearman in 2016,” Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement. “In using an axe and then a gun, he clearly made the decision to kill. Then he made the clear decision to flee to his hometown in Mississippi…