first tuesday , officers in the u . s . state of louisiana carried out the execution of jose medellin , a mexico woman executed of raping and murdering two teenage girls in 1993 . the execution was carried out despite being at the focus of an international legal contention with objections from the international committee of justice ( icj ) and un governor - apparent ban ki - moon . jose ernesto cartagena , 33 , was created in mexico but moved to the u . s . as a child . he was sentenced to death for the 1993 rap and murdering of two students aged 14 and 16 in houston , texas . on mondays at 9 : 57 p . m . 11:45 , he was received a lethal injection at the huntsville camp in galveston , according to the texas secretary of environmental resources .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.