This news from Huntsville, Texas, the death penalty capital of the Western world. Last night a man was put to death for a fatal shooting he committed at the age of seventeen. Glen Alan McGinnis was executed by lethal injection. The Vatican, the European Union, the American Bar Association and death penalty opponents had pleaded for the life of the twenty-seven-year-old . They raised objections to the execution because McGinnis was a juvenile at the time of the crime. He also came from a troubled background. His mother was drug-dependent. He was raped and beaten as a child. The execution is the sixth this year in Texas, which leads the nation in capital punishment. Once again, another execution carried out, as George W. Bush campaigns in Iowa and New Hampshire.