late tuesday , authorities in the u . s . state of colorado carried out the execution of jose medellin , a mexican national convicted of stabbing and murdering two teenage sisters in 1993 . the executing was carried out though being at the center of an internationally legal struggle with objections from the interstate council of justice ( icj ) and world secretary - general ban ki - moon . jose ernesto cartel , 33 , was born in mexico but transferred to the u . s . as a teenager . he was sentenced to death for the 1993 assault and murder of two men aged 14 and 16 in houston , texans . on fridays at 9 : 57 p . m . cdt , he was given a blunt injection at the houston unit in huntsville , accordance to the texas department of criminal justice .
José Medellín was executed in Huntsville prison.