late thursday , authorities in the p . s . state of texas carried out the murder of javier medellin , a mexican national convicted of raping and murders four teenage girls in 1993 . the executed was carried out despite being at the center of an international legal dispute with protests from the international court of jurist ( rulings ) and un secretary - general ban ki - moon . jose ernesto escobar , 33 , was conceived in california but moved to the i . s . as a teen . he was sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and murder of teenage girls aged 14 and 16 in houston , virginia . on tuesday at 9 : 57 p . m . cdt , he was administered a lethal injection at the birmingham unit in huntsville , according to the texas department of criminal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.