{"id":709,"date":"2026-09-19T16:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:21:58","slug":"texas-executes-man-convicted-of-killing-3-during-2005-home-robbery-states-fifth-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Texas executes man convicted of killing 3 during 2005 home robbery, state\u2019s fifth of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0man has been put to death\u00a0for the 2005 fatal shooting of three people during an attempted robbery at his neighbor\u2019s home in rural Texas, the state\u2019s fifth execution this year.<\/p>\n

In Georgia, the execution of a man who killed two real estate agents had also been scheduled for Wednesday but was halted by a judge\u2019s late-night decision a day before he was scheduled to die.<\/p>\n

LeJames Norman, 40, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.<\/p>\n

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LeJames Norman, 40, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He\u2019d been sentenced to death in the fatal shootings of Samuel Roberts, 24, Tiffani Peacock, 18, and Celso Lopez, 38, inside the home they shared in Edna, located about 100 miles southwest of Houston.<\/p>\n

Ker\u2019Sean Ramey was also convicted in the shootings and sentenced to death. His execution is set for next week.<\/p>\n

Court records indicated Norman and Ramey believed there was cocaine in the house and hoped to steal it, but they never found any drugs.<\/p>\n

Norman was arrested about five months after the killings while trying to cross back into the US from Mexico.<\/p>\n

Norman pleaded guilty to capital murder, leaving a jury to decide his punishment.<\/p>\n

The US Supreme Court denied a request on Wednesday from Norman\u2019s attorneys to stop his execution.<\/p>\n

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Tiffani Peacock was one of the three victims killed in Norman\u2019s 2005 triple murder.Tabatha Munnerlyn Hastings<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No last words before execution<\/h2>\n

Asked by the warden if he wanted to make a final statement, Norman shook his head.<\/p>\n

He was laying on a thin mattress atop a steel table, his head on a white pillow.<\/p>\n

He nodded toward a window through which a sister, two of his children and a friend watched and made eye contact as one of them danced.<\/p>\n

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The death chamber gurney is seen at the Huntsville prison in Texas, where Norman was executed on Sept. 16, 2026.Corbis via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began taking effect, he took a couple of deep breaths, appeared to yawn and made snoring sounds \u2014 six of them. All movement then stopped.<\/p>\n

Thirty minutes later, after a physician examined him, he was pronounced dead at 6:44 p.m. and covered with a white sheet. Only his right hand and lower forearm, covered with an elastic bandage, were visible.<\/p>\n

No relatives or friends of the three murder victims in his case witnessed Norman\u2019s punishment.<\/p>\n

Judge halts Georgia execution<\/h2>\n

Stacey Humphreys, 53, was\u00a0convicted of malice murder\u00a0and other crimes in the 2003 killings of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown in an Atlanta suburb.<\/p>\n

He too had been scheduled to die by an injection of the same drug at 7 p.m. EDT at the state prison near Jackson.<\/p>\n

However, a judge halted\u00a0Humphreys\u2019 execution\u00a0late Tuesday after his lawyers filed a petition seeking a resentencing under a new state law that allows victims of abuse to have their sentences reconsidered and reduced, if they can tie their crimes to abuse they suffered.<\/p>\n

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