Texas Executes Convicted Killer After Final Appeal — What Happened Before the Lethal Injection
JUST IN: Texas Executes Murderer by Lethal Injection Who Begged Not to Be Executed
The State of Texas continues to empty its death row. The state has just executed two men for a triple murder that took place in the town of Edna. Just a few minutes ago, Kershawn Remy was executed by lethal injection, following the September 16th, 2026 execution of Le James Norman. Stay with me, because in this video I’ll tell you how the crime happened, how their executions were carried out, and what their final words were before they died.
It all began in a small Texas town called Edna in August 2005. Two young criminals, 19-year-old Le James Norman and 20-year-old Kershawn Remy, lived in the town. Both were criminals with histories of aggravated robbery and drug abuse. The two were planning their next robbery when a rumor made them believe that one of their neighbors had a large amount of cocaine inside his home.
That was when they decided to rob their neighbor’s house. Days earlier, they had broken into another neighbor’s home and stolen several weapons, preparing for the robbery. It was the night of August 24th, 2005. Norman had become convinced that there was cocaine inside that house, believing an entire kilogram of cocaine was hidden inside.
No one knows who started the rumor or how it began, but that house did not belong to any drug dealer. The owner was an innocent man named 38-year-old Celso Lopez, who worked selling tires. That night, Norman and Remy put on masks, armed themselves with weapons, and went to rob their neighbor’s house.
They knocked on the door, and the man who answered was Celso Lopez. Before he could do anything, they forced their way inside. Norman pointed a gun at him and held him there while Kershawn began going through the house, opening things, turning everything upside down, and searching for drugs that did not exist.
Imagine Celso standing there with a gun pointed directly at his face, listening as a stranger tore apart his home while searching for something that was not even there. Celso cooperated with them; he stood still and did not try to do anything. But then, suddenly, Norman shot him. Celso fell to the floor of his own home, bleeding but still alive.
Those two men were not finished. They dragged him into a back room and continued searching, still believing there was something inside that house that justified everything they were doing. And then the front door opened again. With the worst possible luck, two more people walked in: 18-year-old Tiffany Peacock and her 24-year-old boyfriend, Sam Roberts.
It turned out that to make some extra money, Celso had rented the house to Tiffany, who worked nearby and therefore lived there. When they walked inside, they had no idea what was about to happen. When the criminals heard someone entering, they immediately went on alert. Norman instantly recognized Tiffany because they had been classmates, and he was afraid that she might recognize him.
So he forced Tiffany to get down on her knees, facing a masked man with a gun pointed directly at her face. She was probably begging for her life—anyone would have. And while she was kneeling in front of him, Norman, for no reason at all, shot her in the head. Sam, her boyfriend, watched it happen and ran.
Le James chased after him, and the two collided and began fighting, struggling with each other across the room. In the middle of that fight, Le James yelled at Kershawn to shoot. Remy pulled the trigger, and Sam fell hard to the floor, dying instantly. Meanwhile, Celso was still breathing in another room, so Remy went back in there and finished him off as well.
For more than two hours, they went through the entire house searching for money and the supposed cocaine, but they never found anything. Then they turned around and prepared to leave. And this is the part where I want you to stop for a moment, because it tells you exactly who these two men were.
As he was walking out the door, Norman realized they had left something inside the house: a police scanner. They had brought it with them so they could listen for police activity and find out whether the authorities were getting close or had learned about the crime. So Remy went back inside to get it. In an act that reflects the brutality of these murders, before picking it up, Remy walked over to each of the three bodies one by one and shot each of them several more times.
Remy was arrested just over two days later, but he never admitted to the crime or said anything about his accomplice. Norman, meanwhile, fled to Mexico and tried to disappear there. But when he returned to Texas, crossing the border with a fake ID, agents detained him right at the crossing.
This is where the case takes a turn that you don’t see very often. Police arrested Norman for the fake identification, but they had no idea that he was the accomplice in this crime, since Remy had not said a word. But Norman, out of nowhere, began talking. He gave three recorded statements to police, appeared before the grand jury, and in 2007 took the stand during Remy’s trial and testified against his own accomplice without anyone even offering him a deal in exchange for doing so.
That’s how a jury found Remy guilty and sentenced him to death. But betraying his accomplice would not save Norman either. Norman was also put on trial, and in 2008, Le James Norman was sentenced to death. What followed were nearly 20 years of appeals. The lawyers for both men argued that their original defenses had failed them and that a deeper investigation into their brains and childhoods, both marked by so much violence, could have shown that there were other factors that should have been taken into consideration.
In March 2025, the Fifth Circuit rejected their final major appeal. Norman and Remy were held in cells at the Polunsky Unit, where Texas houses its death row inmates. The first execution order was for Norman, scheduled for September 16th, 2026. That day, he was transferred. He was driven for about 45 minutes to the Huntsville Unit, the historic prison where Texas carries out its executions, transported in silence along a route that is not publicly announced to prevent a possible attack or escape attempt.
Norman was taken into the execution chamber, where he was placed on the gurney and his arms were secured on both sides. Intravenous lines were then connected to his body, and the lethal injection was administered. According to witnesses, Norman appeared to suffer and complain for several minutes before eventually losing consciousness and being pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. He was 40 years old when he died. Norman did not make any final statement before his death.
During the following week, Remy tried to ask for clemency, arguing that his accomplice had suffered during his execution and that he did not want to go through the same thing. He therefore asked to be allowed to avoid execution, but all of his appeals were rejected.
On September 23rd, 2026, Kershawn Remy was transferred to the same execution chamber in Huntsville where his accomplice had been executed. At 6:00 p.m., he was strapped to the gurney and intravenous lines were inserted so the lethal injection could be administered. Unlike his accomplice, Remy requested that a spiritual adviser accompany him during his execution.
The adviser was present in the execution chamber, holding his leg as he was put to death. Remy also chose not to make any final statement and was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Unlike Norman, Remy showed no visible signs of suffering. He was 41 years old at the time of his death.
Family members of Tiffany Peacock and Sam Roberts attended both executions.
