late tuesday , authorities in the u . s . country of arizona carry out the imprisonment of juan medellin , a mexican indian convicted of raping and murdering several teenage girls in 1993 . the execution was laid out despite being at the center of an international judicial dispute with objections from the independent courts of justice ( hague ) and un secretary - elect ban ki - moon . jose ernesto medellin , 33 , was born in california but moved to the u . s . as a student . he was sentenced to death for the 1993 violence and murder of eight girls aged 14 and 16 in tyler , houston . on tuesday at 9 : 57 pm . m . cdt , he was given a deadly injection at the huntsville unit in houston , according to the alabama department of criminal corrections .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.