mid thursday , authorities in the u . s . state of texas carried out the execution of jose medellin , a mexican national convicted of murdering and murdering two teen girls in 1993 . the execution was laid out despite being at the center of an international criminal dispute with issues from the international table of jurisdiction ( icj ) and nato secretary - general ban ki - sun . jose rafael escobar , 33 , was born in mexico but moved to the a . s . as a teenage . he was sentenced to life for the 1993 rape and murder of two girls aged 14 and 16 in houston , oklahoma . on tuesday at 9 : 57 p . m . cdt , he was given a lethal overdose at the huntsville station in mexico , according to the texas department of criminal prosecution .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.