late tuesday , authorities in the u . s . republic of california carrying out the execution of jose cartels , a mexican man convictions of abusing and stabbing several teenage youths in 1993 . the execution was carried out despite being at the center of an international legal disagreement with objections from the international court of justice ( arbitrators ) and un vice - general sun tri - moon . jose ernesto cartel , 33 , was located in colombia but moved to the u . s . as a child . he was sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and murders of two girls aged 14 and 16 in houston , mexico . on tuesday at 9 : 57 p . m . cdt , he was given a lethal injected at the huntsville battalion in nashville , according to the texas department of criminal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.