Texas Death Row Executions

The story so far

As of September 24, 2026

Texas has now executed both men convicted in a 2005 triple killing in the small city of Edna. Ker'Sean Ramey, 41, died by lethal injection in Huntsville at 6:34 p.m. on Sept. 24, a week after his co-defendant, LeJames Norman. Ramey was the sixth person executed in Texas this year, with three more executions set over the next two months.

The murders stemmed from a home invasion to steal drugs that were not there. Ramey and Norman, who lived across the street, went into the house with guns and fatally shot Samuel Roberts, 24, Tiffani Peacock, 18, and Celso Lopez, 38. Both men were sentenced to death; Norman testified that each of them shot the victims, and a girlfriend of Ramey described seeing him throw two pistols into a lake after the killings.

Courts rejected Ramey’s final appeals hours before the execution. He had argued jurors never heard about abuse and poverty in his childhood, that the jury selection shut out Black jurors, and that his trial lawyer performed poorly; the lawyer was a full-time dentist with little experience trying death penalty cases. Judges had already upheld the convictions, pointing to witness accounts that tied Ramey to the shootings even though no fingerprints or DNA linked him to the scene.

With both sentences carried out, the case now marks Texas’s current pace and the narrow path for late-stage challenges. Six executions have occurred in the state this year; if the remaining three dates proceed, it will be the most in a single year this decade. The facts that decided this one were the testimony that held up on appeal and a Supreme Court that declined to stop the execution, a pattern that frames the next cases on the calendar. Nationwide, 28 people have been executed this year, with Florida accounting for 15.