Hit Man In San Antonio Murder-For-Hire Slaying Set To Die
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HUNTSVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A hitman hired to kill a woman in an insurance scam, is scheduled for lethal injection tomorrow.
Rolando Ruiz is facing lethal injection Tuesday evening for the July 1992 slaying of 29-year-old Theresa Rodriguez. Evidence showed Ruiz collected $2,000 from the woman's brother-in-law in an insurance scheme that also involved her husband. They received life prison sentences in a plea deal although her husband, Michael Rodriguez, eventually wound up on death row as one of the infamous Texas 7 group of escapees who killed a Dallas-area police officer. Rodriguez was executed in 2008.
Attorneys for the 44-year-old Ruiz have asked the Supreme Court to stop his execution.
His death will make it the third lethal injection this year in Texas, the fifth nationally.