Sept. 23, 2026
Texas Set To Execute Second Man In A Week For Brutal Triple Murder
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RSS Feed 41-year-old Ker’Sean Ramey is scheduled to die this evening by lethal injection for a 2005 triple homicide. Ramey was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of his neighbor, 38-year-old Celso Lopez, 18-year-old Tiffani Peacock and her boyfriend, 24-year-old Sam Roberts. His cohort, LeJames Norman was executed just last week for the same crime, which began as an armed robbery, and ended with both men shooting their victims multiple times. Tiffani Peacock’s sister is speaking out, saying the execution aren’t anything to celebrate, and hopes instead, that people will remember her sister for how she died, but instead for how she lived.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, September 23rd, and the state of Texas is scheduled to execute a man in a matter of hours for the exact same crime the state executed another man for just last week. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. It seems odd. We were just here a week ago. That's right.
00:00:27
Speaker 2: And Texas is, yes, today set to execute another 41-year-old Kershawn Ramey, set to die by lethal injection. And it's for, as you pointed out, the exact same crime his cohort was executed for last week, LeJames Norman. So this will make Kershawn Ramey the sixth person executed this year in the state of Texas.
00:00:53
Speaker 1: We've seen crimes in recent years where Two people participated. Only one got the death penalty. We've seen things like that. This is one of these cases. These two guys participated in this crime. They got the exact same sentence and robes. It's being carried out pretty much at the exact same time. Yeah, one week apart.
00:01:16
Speaker 2: And this all came from a 2005 armed burglary that went terribly wrong and turned into a triple murder. And it happened in a small town, Edna, Texas, about 100 miles southwest of Houston, just to kind of give you a visual on where this town is. And According to prosecutors, they were looking to score some cocaine.
00:01:42
Speaker 1: The two guys are being executed because they wanted some drugs.
00:01:45
Speaker 2: They were 19 and 20.
00:01:46
Speaker 1: Years ago.
00:01:47
Speaker 2: Yep.
00:01:48
Speaker 1: There's a part of that that's just a damn.
00:01:50
Speaker 2: It's awful, but they brought a weapon to the scene, and the way the story goes, this was their neighbor.
00:01:57
Speaker 1: I believe they lived.
00:01:58
Speaker 2: Across the street from this man. His name was Celso Lopez, and they barged into his home, 38-year-old man, again their neighbor, held him at gunpoint and basically started ransacking the house looking for cocaine. They didn't find the cocaine, and we don't know exactly how it happened, but allegedly, or I guess this is what they determined, LeJames Norman, who was executed last week, accidentally shot Lopez. About the same time, roommates come walking in. 18-year-old Tiffany Peacock with her boyfriend, 24-year-old Sam Roberts, and they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
00:02:39
Speaker 1: Ain't that something, babe? Just life and fate and how this works out and the timing of all this is just... What an awful... I mean, there's no death penalty case we hear and you feel good about, right? It's just... This is one of those... They wanted drugs and it turned into a triple murder.
00:02:59
Speaker 2: And three people... senselessly lost their lives, who had a lot of life to live. But Norman forced Peacock, so this is Tiffany Peacock, to her knees. shot her execution style in the head. And then her boyfriend, Sam Roberts, started to run, but they got him. Norman and Raimi both shot him. And then here's the deal. Raimi, the guy who's said to be executed tonight, went back apparently and shot all three of them several more times to make sure they were dead. That's as cold and as calculated as they come.
00:03:41
Speaker 1: You know, we sometimes, and you and I know this, how do they make a determination? This one deserves a death penalty, and that one doesn't. Prosecutors, when they do this, Rob, there are differences in these crimes, in murders, and a lot of these we cover is some of the most heinous and unbelievable stuff you will ever hear. Well, there is a heinousness. There are aggravating circumstances, like they often say to these cases, that these are the worst of the worst, babe.
00:04:23
Speaker 2: Truly.
00:04:24
Speaker 1: These crimes are the worst of the worst.
00:04:25
Speaker 2: And you think about it. Look, we say there were only 19 and 20, but to think that a 19-year-old and a 20-year-old were capable of that kind of violence, that's scary to think if this hadn't happened then, what more could have happened had they not gotten caught eventually. But yes, both of these men had attorneys involved. fighting for them in terms of appeals, talking about their terrible childhoods and how abused they were as kids. And that all very well may be true to get to a point where you could be that young and have that much violence inside of you. But look, the attorneys for Ramey are now filing, they filed their final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. That is what every death row inmate gets to do before their execution, if they so choose. And their big point is there was no physical evidence. linking him to the killings.
00:05:18
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:05:19
Speaker 2: They also claimed that jurors never got to hear about how he suffered physical abuse as a child and grew up in poverty. But wouldn't you say that almost would pretty much every person on death row could check those boxes? And if that were some sort of mitigating circumstance or some sort of circumstance that would allow them to not face the death penalty, I would argue most people on death row probably would have their sentences commuted to life if that was going to be the point at which they would say, okay, well, we feel sorry for you because you had a tough life.
00:05:55
Speaker 1: No, Robe, that doesn't work. A lot of these guys do have awful, really terrible backgrounds. It's no exception here, bae, but.
00:06:04
Speaker 2: This....
00:06:07
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I didn't see anywhere, Robes, you help me, if we got an explanation. This can't be a coincidence. But if they consciously said, yes, we want to make sure we get this over with at the same time. Like, what is it that, like a strategy. You think about DeSantis over in Florida. He has a mindset of, you know what, it doesn't make sense to not have these families get justice for 30 years, 40 years. Let me start clearing some of these out. were they keeping the victims' families in mind in doing this, to not have to wait on another one to have the completion, if you will, of justice, which is both of these guys being executed?
00:06:47
Speaker 2: I have not heard any official word on that, but that would make a whole lot of sense. Because, look, these families, and you've got three separate families who have been through hell and have been waiting for justice.
00:06:59
Speaker 1: For 21 years or so. It's on the short end these days, right?
00:07:03
Speaker 2: Actually, that is below average in terms of the wait time from conviction to actually carrying out a death sentence. We've been covering these, they, some families have had to wait and have lost people in the process who would have liked to see this come to fruition. But some, we had a guy on death row for 50 years. So yes, 21 years is relatively quick. But, um, in this case, Ramey was convicted and his cohort, Norman, he actually went on the run, right? He, he wasn't arrested for five more months after the killings. Cause he went off to Mexico.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: And didn't want to stay in Mexico.
00:07:37
Speaker 2: Decided to try to cross the border again, and that's the point at which he was actually apprehended. But he pleaded guilty, and I'm sure it's because he saw how things went for Ramey, which he was convicted for the crime. But no plea.
00:07:53
Speaker 1: No deal. Excuse me. No plea deal in that they still had their say in how they were going to sentence him. You thought they would say, yeah, I'll plead guilty if you take the death penalty off the table. table, but that's not what happened.
00:08:06
Speaker 2: That is not what happened. And look, during the trial, Ramey's attorneys tried to blame all of the shootings on Norman. I mean, that is what you would expect. But both of these men had death penalties returned by the juries after, I guess, Norman didn't have a conviction. He just pleaded guilty. But yeah, I still don't understand how that was okay to plead guilty knowing that that you weren't getting any sort of leniency when it came to sentencing and that you too would face the death penalty. So, and certainly he has seen what happened with Norman and Norman, I believe he had no last words, nothing to say, and there's never been any explanation, no apology, no nothing when it comes to these murders, this triple murders, these triple murders.
00:08:54
Speaker 1: And what is it? He's the sixth or the seventh now?
00:08:57
Speaker 2: He will be the sixth person to, set to die in the state of Texas. And by the way, there are still three more scheduled executions in that state alone through the end of the year. And we've seen, obviously, governors and Florida leading the way, continuing to sign. death warrants. So we don't know. There could be more. But at this point, it looks like Texas will have executed nine people if all things go as planned this year. But when we come back, we're going to tell you about one of the family members, Tiffany Peacock, we mentioned, 18 years old. She had just graduated from high school, had plans to go to college, had plans to become a veterinarian. We're going to hear from her sister reacting to to the fact that both of her sister's killers being put to death one week apart. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. Yes, Texas executing its sixth inmate this evening. We have Kershawn Ramey, 41 years old, set to die by lethal injection. One week ago, his cohort, LeJames Norman, was executed for the triple murders that took place back in 2005. And one of the victims, 18-year-old Tiffany Peacock, and her sister was interviewed by some local media outlets. in anticipation of these executions. And she talked about, it's so weird, we've been covering this American Idol trial. One of the contestants on American Idol is accused of murdering his wife. So that's in the headlines and going on right now. But interestingly, I just thought this was kind of chilling given that Tiffany was planning, was about to try out for American Idol. It was her dream. She had a beautiful voice, according to her sister. And this is a quote, and I think this is so important because we do get fixated on the murders on the murderers, on the men who were on death row. But Tiffany's sister said this about her, her whole life was still ahead of her. We always believed she would have done incredibly well if she had gotten that chance, talking about American Idol. What I hope people remember is not simply how Tiffany died, but how she lived and who she was. She was a daughter, a sister to a friend, and someone who was deeply loved. Her life mattered before it ever became a part of a court case, and it still matters today. I just think it's always important to remember that there are people grieving these victims. And she said that she is not going to attend the execution to She didn't attend the one before. And by the way, I did read, Norman, not one victim's family member and none of his family members. No one came to his execution. She just said it's too difficult emotionally. And she doesn't view executions as something to celebrate. She said, I take no pleasure in it. I'm not celebrating it. It's just closure at this point. But it's nothing she needed to witness herself. And look, every family member dies. feels differently. Some people need to see it and want to see it and want to look those people in the eye. And other people have even asked for leniency. They've even asked for forgiveness from the governor. Not that it's worked, but it's so interesting to see different reactions by different family members.
00:12:25
Speaker 1: These are always heavy nights. We cover a lot of these stories. And from every angle, it's heavy and it's sad and never celebratory. We're going through these ceremonial Of ending someone's life as a government. That's, Robes, to say out loud, that's uncomfortable. Just the idea of death, ceremoniously executing someone. You got the victims and you have the victims' families, but you do, Robes, as well. To hear how no one attended his execution.
00:12:57
Speaker 2: Nope.
00:12:57
Speaker 1: Nobody cared enough. That somebody's life was ending. Nobody in your family gave a damn that your life was ending. That's sad, too. These stories are just awful. And these are heavy nights, baby. And there's been more and more of them. I get it. Whatever side. It's not politics. It's just we should all feel the weight of another execution.
00:13:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, and for Tiffany's sister to say that it's nothing to celebrate, that is, I mean, I agree with that. It is a somber day. It is a somber moment. It wasn't lost on me.
00:13:31
Speaker 1: We talked about.
00:13:31
Speaker 2: How young these men were when they committed their crimes, 19 and 20. So they were 40 and 41 when they were executed. But guess what? They still both outlived all of their victims' ages. They killed a 38-year-old man. an 18-year-old girl and a 24-year-old guy. And both of these convicted murderers outlived all of them. And I think that to get this closure for family members, whether or not they choose to attend these executions, I think at least gives them something, some sense of justice. It doesn't bring their loved ones back. And I do think every time we hear from the victim's family about who these victims were, we always try to include them because yes, the spotlight, the headlines, the names of the murderers tend to become what people focus on. And I know some people don't have the emotional bandwidth to talk about sometimes their loved ones, but I love being able to tell a story. Not everyone spoke up. Celso Lopez's family and Sam Roberts' family, we didn't hear from them, but just wanted to include Tiffany Peacock and who she was and what her hopes and dreams were and just honor her memory in doing so. But we always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We will talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, September 23rd, and the state of Texas is scheduled to execute a man in a matter of hours for the exact same crime the state executed another man for just last week. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. It seems odd. We were just here a week ago. That's right.
00:00:27
Speaker 2: And Texas is, yes, today set to execute another 41-year-old Kershawn Ramey, set to die by lethal injection. And it's for, as you pointed out, the exact same crime his cohort was executed for last week, LeJames Norman. So this will make Kershawn Ramey the sixth person executed this year in the state of Texas.
00:00:53
Speaker 1: We've seen crimes in recent years where Two people participated. Only one got the death penalty. We've seen things like that. This is one of these cases. These two guys participated in this crime. They got the exact same sentence and robes. It's being carried out pretty much at the exact same time. Yeah, one week apart.
00:01:16
Speaker 2: And this all came from a 2005 armed burglary that went terribly wrong and turned into a triple murder. And it happened in a small town, Edna, Texas, about 100 miles southwest of Houston, just to kind of give you a visual on where this town is. And According to prosecutors, they were looking to score some cocaine.
00:01:42
Speaker 1: The two guys are being executed because they wanted some drugs.
00:01:45
Speaker 2: They were 19 and 20.
00:01:46
Speaker 1: Years ago.
00:01:47
Speaker 2: Yep.
00:01:48
Speaker 1: There's a part of that that's just a damn.
00:01:50
Speaker 2: It's awful, but they brought a weapon to the scene, and the way the story goes, this was their neighbor.
00:01:57
Speaker 1: I believe they lived.
00:01:58
Speaker 2: Across the street from this man. His name was Celso Lopez, and they barged into his home, 38-year-old man, again their neighbor, held him at gunpoint and basically started ransacking the house looking for cocaine. They didn't find the cocaine, and we don't know exactly how it happened, but allegedly, or I guess this is what they determined, LeJames Norman, who was executed last week, accidentally shot Lopez. About the same time, roommates come walking in. 18-year-old Tiffany Peacock with her boyfriend, 24-year-old Sam Roberts, and they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
00:02:39
Speaker 1: Ain't that something, babe? Just life and fate and how this works out and the timing of all this is just... What an awful... I mean, there's no death penalty case we hear and you feel good about, right? It's just... This is one of those... They wanted drugs and it turned into a triple murder.
00:02:59
Speaker 2: And three people... senselessly lost their lives, who had a lot of life to live. But Norman forced Peacock, so this is Tiffany Peacock, to her knees. shot her execution style in the head. And then her boyfriend, Sam Roberts, started to run, but they got him. Norman and Raimi both shot him. And then here's the deal. Raimi, the guy who's said to be executed tonight, went back apparently and shot all three of them several more times to make sure they were dead. That's as cold and as calculated as they come.
00:03:41
Speaker 1: You know, we sometimes, and you and I know this, how do they make a determination? This one deserves a death penalty, and that one doesn't. Prosecutors, when they do this, Rob, there are differences in these crimes, in murders, and a lot of these we cover is some of the most heinous and unbelievable stuff you will ever hear. Well, there is a heinousness. There are aggravating circumstances, like they often say to these cases, that these are the worst of the worst, babe.
00:04:23
Speaker 2: Truly.
00:04:24
Speaker 1: These crimes are the worst of the worst.
00:04:25
Speaker 2: And you think about it. Look, we say there were only 19 and 20, but to think that a 19-year-old and a 20-year-old were capable of that kind of violence, that's scary to think if this hadn't happened then, what more could have happened had they not gotten caught eventually. But yes, both of these men had attorneys involved. fighting for them in terms of appeals, talking about their terrible childhoods and how abused they were as kids. And that all very well may be true to get to a point where you could be that young and have that much violence inside of you. But look, the attorneys for Ramey are now filing, they filed their final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. That is what every death row inmate gets to do before their execution, if they so choose. And their big point is there was no physical evidence. linking him to the killings.
00:05:18
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:05:19
Speaker 2: They also claimed that jurors never got to hear about how he suffered physical abuse as a child and grew up in poverty. But wouldn't you say that almost would pretty much every person on death row could check those boxes? And if that were some sort of mitigating circumstance or some sort of circumstance that would allow them to not face the death penalty, I would argue most people on death row probably would have their sentences commuted to life if that was going to be the point at which they would say, okay, well, we feel sorry for you because you had a tough life.
00:05:55
Speaker 1: No, Robe, that doesn't work. A lot of these guys do have awful, really terrible backgrounds. It's no exception here, bae, but.
00:06:04
Speaker 2: This....
00:06:07
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I didn't see anywhere, Robes, you help me, if we got an explanation. This can't be a coincidence. But if they consciously said, yes, we want to make sure we get this over with at the same time. Like, what is it that, like a strategy. You think about DeSantis over in Florida. He has a mindset of, you know what, it doesn't make sense to not have these families get justice for 30 years, 40 years. Let me start clearing some of these out. were they keeping the victims' families in mind in doing this, to not have to wait on another one to have the completion, if you will, of justice, which is both of these guys being executed?
00:06:47
Speaker 2: I have not heard any official word on that, but that would make a whole lot of sense. Because, look, these families, and you've got three separate families who have been through hell and have been waiting for justice.
00:06:59
Speaker 1: For 21 years or so. It's on the short end these days, right?
00:07:03
Speaker 2: Actually, that is below average in terms of the wait time from conviction to actually carrying out a death sentence. We've been covering these, they, some families have had to wait and have lost people in the process who would have liked to see this come to fruition. But some, we had a guy on death row for 50 years. So yes, 21 years is relatively quick. But, um, in this case, Ramey was convicted and his cohort, Norman, he actually went on the run, right? He, he wasn't arrested for five more months after the killings. Cause he went off to Mexico.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: And didn't want to stay in Mexico.
00:07:37
Speaker 2: Decided to try to cross the border again, and that's the point at which he was actually apprehended. But he pleaded guilty, and I'm sure it's because he saw how things went for Ramey, which he was convicted for the crime. But no plea.
00:07:53
Speaker 1: No deal. Excuse me. No plea deal in that they still had their say in how they were going to sentence him. You thought they would say, yeah, I'll plead guilty if you take the death penalty off the table. table, but that's not what happened.
00:08:06
Speaker 2: That is not what happened. And look, during the trial, Ramey's attorneys tried to blame all of the shootings on Norman. I mean, that is what you would expect. But both of these men had death penalties returned by the juries after, I guess, Norman didn't have a conviction. He just pleaded guilty. But yeah, I still don't understand how that was okay to plead guilty knowing that that you weren't getting any sort of leniency when it came to sentencing and that you too would face the death penalty. So, and certainly he has seen what happened with Norman and Norman, I believe he had no last words, nothing to say, and there's never been any explanation, no apology, no nothing when it comes to these murders, this triple murders, these triple murders.
00:08:54
Speaker 1: And what is it? He's the sixth or the seventh now?
00:08:57
Speaker 2: He will be the sixth person to, set to die in the state of Texas. And by the way, there are still three more scheduled executions in that state alone through the end of the year. And we've seen, obviously, governors and Florida leading the way, continuing to sign. death warrants. So we don't know. There could be more. But at this point, it looks like Texas will have executed nine people if all things go as planned this year. But when we come back, we're going to tell you about one of the family members, Tiffany Peacock, we mentioned, 18 years old. She had just graduated from high school, had plans to go to college, had plans to become a veterinarian. We're going to hear from her sister reacting to to the fact that both of her sister's killers being put to death one week apart. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. Yes, Texas executing its sixth inmate this evening. We have Kershawn Ramey, 41 years old, set to die by lethal injection. One week ago, his cohort, LeJames Norman, was executed for the triple murders that took place back in 2005. And one of the victims, 18-year-old Tiffany Peacock, and her sister was interviewed by some local media outlets. in anticipation of these executions. And she talked about, it's so weird, we've been covering this American Idol trial. One of the contestants on American Idol is accused of murdering his wife. So that's in the headlines and going on right now. But interestingly, I just thought this was kind of chilling given that Tiffany was planning, was about to try out for American Idol. It was her dream. She had a beautiful voice, according to her sister. And this is a quote, and I think this is so important because we do get fixated on the murders on the murderers, on the men who were on death row. But Tiffany's sister said this about her, her whole life was still ahead of her. We always believed she would have done incredibly well if she had gotten that chance, talking about American Idol. What I hope people remember is not simply how Tiffany died, but how she lived and who she was. She was a daughter, a sister to a friend, and someone who was deeply loved. Her life mattered before it ever became a part of a court case, and it still matters today. I just think it's always important to remember that there are people grieving these victims. And she said that she is not going to attend the execution to She didn't attend the one before. And by the way, I did read, Norman, not one victim's family member and none of his family members. No one came to his execution. She just said it's too difficult emotionally. And she doesn't view executions as something to celebrate. She said, I take no pleasure in it. I'm not celebrating it. It's just closure at this point. But it's nothing she needed to witness herself. And look, every family member dies. feels differently. Some people need to see it and want to see it and want to look those people in the eye. And other people have even asked for leniency. They've even asked for forgiveness from the governor. Not that it's worked, but it's so interesting to see different reactions by different family members.
00:12:25
Speaker 1: These are always heavy nights. We cover a lot of these stories. And from every angle, it's heavy and it's sad and never celebratory. We're going through these ceremonial Of ending someone's life as a government. That's, Robes, to say out loud, that's uncomfortable. Just the idea of death, ceremoniously executing someone. You got the victims and you have the victims' families, but you do, Robes, as well. To hear how no one attended his execution.
00:12:57
Speaker 2: Nope.
00:12:57
Speaker 1: Nobody cared enough. That somebody's life was ending. Nobody in your family gave a damn that your life was ending. That's sad, too. These stories are just awful. And these are heavy nights, baby. And there's been more and more of them. I get it. Whatever side. It's not politics. It's just we should all feel the weight of another execution.
00:13:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, and for Tiffany's sister to say that it's nothing to celebrate, that is, I mean, I agree with that. It is a somber day. It is a somber moment. It wasn't lost on me.
00:13:31
Speaker 1: We talked about.
00:13:31
Speaker 2: How young these men were when they committed their crimes, 19 and 20. So they were 40 and 41 when they were executed. But guess what? They still both outlived all of their victims' ages. They killed a 38-year-old man. an 18-year-old girl and a 24-year-old guy. And both of these convicted murderers outlived all of them. And I think that to get this closure for family members, whether or not they choose to attend these executions, I think at least gives them something, some sense of justice. It doesn't bring their loved ones back. And I do think every time we hear from the victim's family about who these victims were, we always try to include them because yes, the spotlight, the headlines, the names of the murderers tend to become what people focus on. And I know some people don't have the emotional bandwidth to talk about sometimes their loved ones, but I love being able to tell a story. Not everyone spoke up. Celso Lopez's family and Sam Roberts' family, we didn't hear from them, but just wanted to include Tiffany Peacock and who she was and what her hopes and dreams were and just honor her memory in doing so. But we always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We will talk to you soon.