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Texas death row inmate executed by lethal injection for 3 murders
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Key Points:
- LeJames Norman, a Texas death row inmate convicted of murdering three people during a 2005 robbery, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday evening in Huntsville, Texas, after declining to make a final statement.
- Norman and an accomplice, Ker’Sean Ramey, believed there was cocaine in the victims' home and went there to steal it but found none; both were sentenced to death, with Ramey's execution scheduled for next week.
- Norman was arrested five months after the murders while attempting to cross from Mexico back into the U.S., pleaded guilty to capital murder, and had his execution upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court despite last-minute appeals.
- Norman's family, including his sister and two children, were present during the execution, while no relatives of the victims witnessed it; he was the fifth inmate executed in Texas in 2024.
- Separately, a scheduled execution in Georgia was halted due to a judge's decision following new legislation allowing sentence reductions for victims of childhood abuse, affecting the case of Stacey Humphreys.
