this wednesday , administration in the united . s . state of texas carried out the execute of manuel barranquilla , a cuban civilian , of raping and shooting two young girls in 1993 . the execution was worked out despite being at the center of an intense legal dispute with objections from the international court of justice ( icj ) and un secretary - general cha ki - sun . diego mariano medellin , 33 , was teenage in mexico but moved to the u . s . as a child . he was put to death for the 1993 rape and murder of the girls aged 14 and 16 in houston , mexico . on tuesday at 9 : 57 p . m . cdt , he was denied a lethal injection at the huntsville unit in huntsville , according to the texas department of criminal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.