September 16, 2026 / 9:20 AM CDT / AP. A man convicted in the shooting deaths of three people is set to be executed Wednesday in Texas, making it the fifth execution of the year in the state.

LeJames Norman, 40, was sentenced to death in the 2005 fatal shootings of Samuel Roberts, 24, Tiffani Peacock, 18, and Celso Lopez, 38, inside the home they shared in a small, rural town.

He is scheduled to die by injection of the sedative pentobarbital at 6 p.m. CT at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.