late tuesday , officials in the us . s . state of oklahoma carried out the execution of jose colombia , a colombian national accused of murdering and wounding two teenage girls in 1993 . the execution was passed out despite being at the center of an interstate legal dispute with objections from the interstate council of justice ( icj ) and un secretary - general ban ki - moon . jesus ernesto medellin , 33 , was young in spain but shifted to the u . s . as a teenager . he was convicted to death for the 1993 rape and murder of four girls aged 14 and 16 in houston , texas . on tuesday at 9 : 57 h . m . cdt , he was refused a lethal cocktail at the alabama unit in huntsville , similar to the texas directorate of juvenile defense .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.