A man was executed Wednesday evening in Texas for a triple killing committed during an attempted robbery at a rural home, 1 week after the other man convicted in the case was put to death.
Ker’Sean Ramey, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. CDT following a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was the 6th person executed this year in Texas, with 3 more lethal injections scheduled in the state over the next 2 months.
In the execution chamber, a prison chaplain rested his left hand on Ramey’s right shoulder and offered a brief prayer before the warden asked the prisoner if he had any last words. Ramey praised God and thanked friends, family, and fellow death row inmates he called his brothers.
“To the brothers on Texas death row that grew up with me, that poured into me and showed what it means to be a man, because I came in young and didn’t understand what manhood was ... to you brothers ... I greatly appreciate you,” he said just before the injection got underway.
As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began flowing, Ramey took a deep breath, sputtered, and began snoring. After 10 loud snores and two that were nearly inaudible, all movement ceased.
A physician pronounced Ramey dead 14 minutes after the injection began. Ramey’s body was then covered with a white sheet.
A jury had convicted Ramey of capital murder and sentenced him to death for the August 2005 shootings of Samuel Roberts, 24, Tiffani Peacock, 18, and Celso Lopez, 38, at the home they shared in Edna, a small rural city some 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Houston.
Ramey and LeJames Norman believed there was cocaine in the house and hoped to steal it, according to court records. The men entered the home with guns, found no drugs, and fatally shot the 3 residents, who lived just across the street from Norman, the records show.
Norman was executed on Sept. 16 at the Huntsville prison, where all Texas executions are carried out.
Hours before Wednesday’s execution, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Ramey’s final appeal.
His attorneys argued that jurors had never heard that Ramey suffered physical abuse as a child and grew up in poverty. State prosecutors told the court the appeal was “meritless” and said the evidence showed Ramey exhibited “an escalating pattern of criminal behavior.”
Norman was arrested about 5 months after the killings while seeking to re-enter the U.S. from Mexico, where he had fled. He testified at Ramey’s trial in January 2007 that both men shot the victims. Ramey’s attorneys blamed the shootings on Norman.
Ramey’s former girlfriend testified that she was with Ramey when he threw 2 handguns into a lake after the killings and that he later described his involvement to her in detail.
Lopez was shot 4 times, including in the back of the head; Peacock was shot twice in the head; and Roberts was shot 5 times in the chest, neck, and head.
Norman was sentenced to death in December 2008 after pleading guilty to capital murder.
Ramey becomes the 6th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas and the 602nd overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982. Ramey becomes the 84th condemned inmate to be put to death in Texas since Greg Abbott became governor in January 2015.
Ramey becomes the 28th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas and the 1,682nd overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977, after a 4-year moratorium.
Source: The Associated Press, Staff; Rick Halperin September 23, 2026
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