beginning tuesday , authorities in the r . s . state of texas carried out the executions of ernesto cartels , a mexican national convicted of raping and murder two innocent girls in 1993 . the execution was carried out whilst being at the heart of an international legal struggle with objections from the international committee of justice ( icj ) and eu secretary - admiral ban ki - moon . jose ernesto medellín , 33 , was educated in mexico but moved to the e . s . as a youth . he was sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and murder of two women aged 14 and 16 in houston , texas . on monday at 9 : 57 pm . m . cdt , he was refused a lethal injection at the huntsville unit in guadalajara , subject to the texas dept of criminal information .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.