Texas carried out its fifth execution of the year on Wednesday, putting to death LeJames Norman, 40, who was convicted of fatally shooting three people during a botched robbery in Edna, a small city roughly 100 miles south-west of Houston, in 2005. Norman was administered a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state penitentiary in Huntsville after last-minute appeals to the US Supreme Court failed. Meanwhile, in Georgia, the scheduled execution of Stacey Humphreys, 53 — convicted of the 2003 murders of two real-estate agents in the Atlanta suburb of Powder Springs — was halted by a judge who granted a stay after Humphreys' lawyers filed a petition under a new state law allowing victims of abuse to seek resentencing if they can link their crimes to abuse they suffered; the Georgia Supreme Court declined to overturn the stay before the scheduled execution time.