Overview
- LeJames Norman was executed Wednesday evening and pronounced dead at 6:44 p.m. after receiving a lethal dose of pentobarbital at the Huntsville state penitentiary.
- Norman had pleaded guilty to the 2005 shootings of Samuel Roberts, Tiffani Peacock, and Celso Lopez during a botched robbery in Edna and was sentenced to death by a jury.
- Court records show Norman and Ker’Sean Ramey entered the home believing cocaine was inside but found no drugs before fatally shooting the three residents.
- The U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute request from Norman’s lawyers to halt the execution, and no relatives of the victims witnessed the punishment.
- Norman’s execution was Texas’s fifth this year, and Ker’Sean Ramey, who was also convicted and sentenced to death in the same case, remains scheduled to be executed next week.