Former electrician Stephen A. McCoy was executed early Wednesday for killing and raping a stranded motorist as part of a blood pact with two companions.
McCoy, 41, was put to death by lethal injection for the 1981 slaying of Cynthia Johnson, 18, of Houston.He made no last statement.
McCoy was the second Texas death row inmate put to death this year and the 31st person in the state since 1982. Nationally, he was the 110th person to be executed since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976.