A paid hit man has been executed in Texas for the contract killing of a San Antonio woman in a life insurance scheme nearly a quarter-century ago. Rolando Ruiz was convicted of accepting $2,000 to fatally shoot 29-year-old Theresa Rodriguez outside her home in 1992 as she was getting out of a car with her husband and brother-in-law, who both orchestrated her murder. Ruiz was declared dead at 11:06 p.m. local time Tuesday. Ruiz's lethal injection is the third this year in Texas and the fifth nationally. The execution was delayed nearly five hours before the U.S. Supreme Court rejected last-day appeals from Ruiz's attorneys. Evidence showed the victim's husband, Michael Rodriguez, stood to collect at least a quarter-million dollars in insurance benefits from his wife's death. He was executed in 2008 in a separate case.