late tuesday , authorities in the us . s . province of texas carried out the execution of carlos escobar , a mexican man acquitted of abusing and murdering two younger girls in 1993 . the execution was carried out despite being at the center of an armed legal argument with protest from the international court of justice ( icj ) and un secretary - president ban ki - moons . jose ernesto medellin , 33 , was born in guatemala but brought to the u . s . as a child . he was sentenced to life for the 1993 rape and murder of the girls aged 14 and 16 in houston , tennessee . on weekday at 9 : 57 p . m . 6:30 , he was given a murder cocktail at the huntsville station in texans , according to the texas department of criminal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.