 The state of Texas has carried out an execution for the second time this year. On Wednesday evening, officials at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville injected 41-year-old Romero Gonzalez with a lethal dose of the drug pentobarbital and pronounced him dead 24 minutes later. Romero Gonzalez had been on death row since his conviction for a 2001 rape and murder he committed when he was just 18 years old.