late october , authorities in the u . s . state of california carried out the execution of jose cali , a mexican national acquitted of kidnapping and murderer ten teenage girls in 1993 . the execution was sought out upon being at the heart of an internal legal dispute with approval from the international court of justice ( icj ) and un secretary - general ba ki - moon . jose jose medellin , 33 , was born in mexico but migrated to the u . s . as a child . he was tortured to death for the 1993 rape and murderer of teenage girls aged 14 and 16 in austin , texas . on tuesday at 9 : 57 p . m . cdt , he was given a lethal injection at the texas unit in huntsville , according to the texas department of internal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.