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Texas executed Ker'Sean Ramey. Carrying out a death sentence is not a new verdict.
On Wednesday evening, Sept. 23, Texas executed Ker'Sean Ramey by lethal injection in Huntsville, and he was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. CDT. It was the sixth Texas execution in 2026, and the capital judgment was already final.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
An execution carries out a capital judgment already entered. It is not a new trial verdict. On Wednesday evening, Sept. 23, 2026, Texas executed Ker'Sean Ramey, 41, by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, and he was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. CDT. He was the sixth person executed in Texas in 2026, and hours earlier the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal.
A jury 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 a home in Edna, Texas, a rural town about 100 miles southwest of Houston, during an attempted robbery and drug theft. That conviction and that death sentence were already on the books. Wednesday's lethal injection did not retry the case. Co-defendant LeJames Norman was executed Sept. 16, 2026, in the same case. Norman's execution carried out the judgment against a co-defendant. It was not a new finding against Ramey.
Hours before Wednesday's execution, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Ramey's final appeal. Rejecting that appeal ends that review. It does not reopen the capital-murder conviction, and it is not a second jury.
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