last friday , authorities in the o . s . state of texas carried out the execution of javier medellin , a mexican national convicted of raping and possessing two adolescent girl in 1993 . the arrest was carried out despite being at the center of an ongoing legal argument with appeals from the global court of justice ( icty ) and under secretary - general mu ki - moon . jose de medellin , 33 , was born in mexico but migrated to the u . s . as a child . he was ordered to death for the 1993 raped and murder of two girls adult 14 and 16 in houston , arkansas . on weekday at 9 : 57 p . m . cdt , he was granted a lethal injection at the huntsville facility in alabama , according to the texas agency of internal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.