Gregory Summers was executed in the Texas...

Gregory Summers was executed in the Texas death chamber today for initiating a murder-for-hire plot that authorities said led to the fatal stabbing of his parents and an uncle.
The lethal injection of Summers, 48, came more than seven years after the execution of Andrew Cantu (02/16/1999), convicted of taking the $10,000 offer and fatally stabbing Gene and Helen Summers, both 64, and Billy Mack Summers, 60, in order to collect $24,000 in insurance benefits. They all were killed in June 1990. Gene and Helen Summers adopted their son when he was 3 days old. 2 men who accompanied Cantu the night of the slayings testified against him as part of a plea bargain.
Summers becomes the 22nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas, the 48th in the USA, and the 1052nd overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.