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Texas is Set to Execute a Second Man Convicted in 2005 Triple Homicide
ABC News · 3 days ago · Read the Full Story on ABC News
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Ker'Sean Ramey is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for a 2005 triple homicide, a week after his co-defendant was put to death.
- Ker’Sean Ramey, 41, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Wednesday at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.
- Ramey would be the sixth person executed in Texas this year, with three more executions scheduled.
- A jury convicted Ramey of capital murder and sentenced him to death for the killings of Samuel Roberts, 24, Tiffani Peacock, 18, and Celso Lopez, 38.
- The 2005 murders took place during an attempted robbery at a home in Edna, Texas, where the victims lived.
- Ramey and co-defendant LeJames Norman believed there was cocaine in the house, but found none.
- Norman was put to death on September 16 at the same prison, having no last words and with no relatives or friends of the victims present.
- Ramey's attorneys filed a final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing there was no physical evidence linking him to the killings and that mitigating evidence of his childhood poverty and abuse was not heard by jurors.
- Prosecutors argued that Ramey presented no issues that merited reconsideration of his conviction.
- Norman pleaded guilty to capital murder about a year after testifying at Ramey's trial and was subsequently sentenced to death.
- Norman testified during the trial that both he and Ramey shot the victims.
- Autopsy and forensic details showed Lopez was shot four times, Peacock twice, and Roberts five times.
- During the trial, Ramey's attorneys blamed the shootings entirely on Norman.
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