USA - Oklahoma. Jessie James Cummings was put to death today at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary

Jessie James Cummings was put to death today at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Cummings, 52, white, was sentenced to die for orchestrating the Sept. 5, 1991 murders of his 11-year-old niece, Melissa Marie Moody and of his half sister, Judy Ann Moody Mayo. Cummings becomes the 2nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Oklahoma and the 88th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1990. Cummings becomes the 24th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1123rd overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.