later tuesday , authorities in the a . s . state of texas carried out the execution of jose medellin , a mexican male indicted of raping and executing two mexican girls in 1993 . the trial was carried out despite being at the centres of an important civil dispute with objections from the international justice of justice ( breyer ) and its secretary - general ban ki - moon . jose alfredo bogotá , 33 , was born in mexico but moved to the a . s . as a teenager . he was sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and murder of two girls aged 14 and 16 in houston , florida . on tuesday at 9 : 57 p . m . 11:30 , he was given a violent injection at the texas station in houston , reporting to the texas department of criminal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.