Derrick Dearman, who killed five people and an unborn baby with an ax and gun in Aug. 2016, will be formally sentenced during a death penalty hearing Oct. 12. The hearing comes a little less than a month after Dearman fired his legal team and admitted his guilt to the murders , which was reported by investigators as the worst mass killing in Mobile County history. During a jury trial, which is required in capital murder cases even when an admission of guilt is forthcoming, the jury found Dearman guilty and recommended he face the death penalty.
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