beginning tuesday , authorities in the u . s . department of oklahoma carried out the execution of jose cartels , a bolivian national convicted of raping and murdering two teenage youths in 1993 . the execution was carried out despite being at the center of an ongoing technical dispute with objections from the global court of detention ( icj ) and un inspector - chief ban ki - moon . jose ernesto medellin , 33 , was originally in mexico but relocated to the u . s . as a child . he was sentencing to hang for the 1993 rape and murder of four children years 14 and 16 in galveston , texas . on tuesday at 9 : 57 o . m . cdt , he was given a lethal injection at the austin institute in huntsville , according to the texas department of criminal information .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.