Midnight Mike
2008-08-06, 07:47 PM
Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin, whose death penalty conviction in the rape and murder of two teen girls sparked international controversy, was put to death in Texas on Tuesday night, prison officials said.
Medellin was 18 when he participated in the June 1993 gang rape and murder of two Harris County girls, Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16. He was convicted of the crimes and sentenced to death.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/05/sco ... index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/05/scotus.execution/index.html)
Medellin was 18 when he participated in the June 1993 gang rape and murder of two Harris County girls, Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16. He was convicted of the crimes and sentenced to death.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/05/sco ... index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/05/scotus.execution/index.html)