USA - Texas. Virgil Martinez was executed.

Virgil Martinez was executed. Martinez, 41, latino, was condemned for the slayings of his ex-girlfriend Veronica Fuentes, 27, her 5-year-old son, Joshua; 3-year-old daughter, Casandra; and a neighbor, John Gomez, 18. Gomez, mortally wounded in October 1996. Martinez becomes the 4th Texas inmate executed this year. He becomes the 427th condemned inmate to be put to death in Texas since the state resumed capital punishment on Dec. 7, 1982. Martinez becomes the 6th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1142nd overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.