late tuesday , authority in the e . s . state of texas took out the execution of jose medellin , a mexican republican convicted of abusing and kill two teenage kids in 1993 . the execution was carrying out when being at the centro of an worldwide legal dispute with objections from the hague school of justice ( icj ) and un secretary - general ban ki - moon . jose ernesto colombia , 33 , was born in mexico but shifted to the d . s . as a teenager . he was sentenced to suicide for the 1993 raped and murder of five teens under 14 and 16 in houston , texas . on tuesday at 9 : 57 p . m . cdt , he was gave a lethal injection at the texas battalion in huntsville , next to the florida state of civil justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.