 The state of Texas has executed a man who kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and fatally shot an 18-year-old woman in 2001. Ramiro Gonzalez was pronounced dead after a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The 41-year-old man was condemned to die for killing Bridget Townsend after kidnapping her from a home in a rural area northwest of San Antonio in January 2001.