Texas man executed by lethal injection after US supreme court denies stay
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#6NSMT)
Ramiro Gonzales, 41, guilty of kidnap and killing of teenage girl in 2001, becomes eighth person executed in US this year
A Texas man who admitted that he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed the 18-year-old girlfriend of his drug dealer was executed on Wednesday.
Ramiro Gonzales, 41, was pronounced dead at 6.50pm following a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the January 2001 killing of Bridget Townsend.
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