first evening , authorities in the u . s . country of florida carried out the execution of jose medellin , a mexican national convicted of raping and kill two teenage men in 1993 . the execution was carries out whilst being at the center of an international lawyer dispute with objections from the international court of justice ( icj ) and world vice - general lin ki - moon . jose ernesto medellin , 33 , was young in mexico but moved to the u . s . as a child . he was sentenced to death for the 1993 violence and murders of two girls both 14 and 16 in houston , az . on friday at 9 : 57 b . m . cdt , he was given a lethal treatment at the houston unit in huntsville , according to the texas departments of criminal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.