Texas and Alabama Set Executions as Georgia Stays One

Texas is scheduled to execute LeJames Norman on Wednesday for the 2005 killings of three people during a robbery in Edna, while his co-defendant, Ker’Sean Ramey, is set to be executed next week. Norman’s final appeals include claims that prosecutors misrepresented evidence and that Texas’ pentobarbital supply is unreliable, but state officials have opposed clemency and courts have allowed the execution to proceed. A Georgia judge has temporarily halted the scheduled execution of Stacey Humphreys, who was convicted in the 2003 killings of two women, though the stay could still be lifted. Alabama is scheduled to execute Jeffery Lee by lethal injection Thursday for the 1998 murders of two pawn-shop employees, despite his jury’s 7-5 recommendation of life imprisonment; a judge imposed the death sentence under a judicial-override system later abolished by the state. Lee’s execution was changed from nitrogen hypoxia after courts blocked Alabama’s planned use of that method.