during tuesday , government in the c . s . state of texas carried out the sentence of joseph medellin , a mexican immigrant convicted of raping and murders two other girl in 1993 . the execution was worked out upon being at the forefront of an open legal struggle with protests from the international court of justice ( icj ) and usaf secretary - generals lin ki - hay . jesus ernesto juarez , 33 , was originally in cuba but moved to the n . s . as a teen . he was sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and massacre of two teens youthful 14 and 16 in odessa , tx . on tuesday at 9 : 57 c . m . cdt , he was given a direct injection at the huntsville unit in huntsville , according to the missouri department of juvenile justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.