AUSTIN, Texas (THE TEXAS TRIBUNE) — LeJames Norman, one of two men sentenced to death for killing three people in a robbery, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday barring a final reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2005, Norman and Ker’sean Olajuwa Ramey broke into a neighbor’s home in Edna intending to steal cocaine, according to court records. The two then got into an altercation with the occupants of the home and killed Celso Lopez, Tiffani Peacock and Sam Roberts. While Norman initially fled to Mexico after the killings, he was apprehended by Border Patrol when he re-entered the country and subsequently cooperated with police, including by testifying at Ramey’s trial.
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Norman pleaded guilty in his trial in 2008 and was sentenced to death. In the years since, he has filed several appeals through state and federal courts arguing that there were issues with how his trial was conducted. In his most recent petition, filed to the Supreme Court on Monday, Norman argued that prosecutors misrepresented facts between his and Ramey’s trial to make Norman seem more culpable for the killings.
Norman also sued the state in August alongside John Rubio, another death row inmate with an execution scheduled for November, asking a Travis County district judge to block Texas’ use of pentobarbital, the drug it uses for lethal injections. The suit argued that Texas’ supply of the drug was either expired or created through unreliable means at third-party compounding facilities…