This news from Huntsville, Texas: Critics of capital punishment say George W. Bush missed a prime opportunity last night to demonstrate his compassionate conservatism. The Texas governor denied a last-minute reprieve for condemned killer, Betty Lou Beets. The sixty-two-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for the murder of her fifth husband. Prosecutors say Beets killed her husband for insurance and pension money in 1983. She was also convicted of shooting and wounding her second husband and has been charged but never tried in the '81 shooting death of her fourth husband. Beets insisted she was innocent and had recently said she'd also endured years of domestic violence. That issue prompted organizations dealing with domestic violence victims to push for a delay in the trial.