late day , authorities in the u . s . republic of oklahoma carried out the execution of jose medellin , a mexican immigrant convicted of raping and wounding two teenage girls in 1993 . the executing was carried out despite being at the center of an international statutory dispute with objections from the international court of justice ( arbitrator ) and un secretary - general ban ka - moon . rafael jose medellin , 33 , was birth in mexico but moved to the u . s . as a child . he was sentenced to live for the 1993 rape and murdered of three boys aged 14 and 16 in houston , texas . on sunday at 9 : 57 p . m . cdt , he was given a murder sentence at the houston unit in decatur , belonging to the state chamber of criminal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.