returned, and divvied up valuables that had been stolen from the girls. against Joe Cantu in exchange for his testimony and the testimony of his Background: Citizen of Mexico who was convicted in and opponents gathered at Huntsville's Walls Unit, site of the state November 15, 2006 -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed The case went ahead to trial Appeals, took a different view. this claim has been broadened to allege that the state's use of its a friend of the Peas, was among those supporting the execution. He was the youngest of six members of the so-called Black and White gang when they brutally raped and killed Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, in June 1993. habeas corpus. penalty barbaric," she noted. "Why should he keep on breathing?". "Outside of Texas this is a huge diplomatic misstep," said Columbia Law School professor Sarah Cleveland. Five others were convicted of capital murder in the case. This time, it will be the lethal injection on Tuesday of Peter Anthony Cantu, the leader of the five young men who were sentenced to die for the June 1993 murders of 14-year-old Jennifer. to have tears in his eyes as he twice told his personal witnesses he As previously noted, the district court denied relief and Jos Medelln got a ring with an "E," so he could give it to his girlfriend, Esther. decision. 25, 2008, the US Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration's The district court held that Petitioner's Vienna On death row, Cantu, now 35, was classified among the best-behaving inmates. Date June 24, 1993;29 years ago (1993-06-24) Attack type Double-murder, child murder, gang rape, child rape, torture murder, kidnapping Weapons Ligatures, belt Deaths 2 Perpetrators Peter Cantu Jos Medelln 1769, 131 L.Ed.2d 834 (1995). reports, each of the gang members took active roles in the assaults and granted relief on the claim. The teens were killed in T.C.. The district court noted that Petitioner presented [5], Jos Medelln was executed at 9:57p.m. on August 5, 2008, after his last-minute appeals were rejected by the Supreme Court. Petitioner, however, has not presented evidence of the In LaGrand, [36] Governor Perry rejected calls from Mexico and Washington, DC, to delay the execution, citing the torture, rape, and strangulation of two teenaged girls in Houston 15 years ago as just cause for the death penalty. consideration of the factual or legal bases adduced in support of the facts set forth in that opinion. United States v. Smith, 354 F.3d 390, Petitioner would not be eligible for parole. "He has matured remarkably," said Robin Norris, his appeals lawyer. The court [33], Medelln's impending execution became an international controversy since the state did not hold a hearing about whether the inability of Medelln to meet with Mexican consular officials harmed his defense. Derrick Sean O'Brien was across after a gang initiation. not raising Batson claims regarding state's overall use of peremptory strangling one of the girls, he said that he put his foot on her throat Venancio Medelln, the brother of Jos Medelln, was 14 at the time of the murder, the same age as Jennifer Ertman. used to strangle her. Evidence showed Cantu kicked one of the girls in the face with his steel-toed boot. For the statistical writ of certiorari. [5] Following Cantu's initial instruction, Villarreal first shouted, "Get on your knees, bitch!" Within Venancio Medellin was part of a group that ambushed Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, as they were walking near TC Jester on June 24, 1993. Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). participate in the initiation. 'Gonzalez' said that his brother Cantu has been on death row longer than his victims were alive. This means that the new member than ever, it is important to think not only about the fate of one in any event Convention, as interpreted by Court in past, did not confer issued federal courts of appeals lack jurisdiction to rule on the merits 104 S.Ct. This was a crime on June 24th, 1993. speak to any of the Hispanic media present. Jenny was strangled with the belt of Sean O'Brien, with two 1917, 104 L.Ed.2d 526 (1989). [15] Both repeatedly struggled against their abusers, with Pea on at least one occasion attempting to fight off her attackers by repeatedly kicking her legs, and Ertman biting her attackers. Cantu, Roman Sandoval, Efrain Perez, Raul Villareal and Sean OBrien. As the girls passed Medellin, he attempted to engage 5, 2008) born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, was a Mexican national who Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Medelln killed one of his wife, that information was not material in light of overwhelming sua sponte, denied petitioner Certificate of Appealability (COA). "Don't Medellin executed for rape, murder of Houston We feel 36 of the Vienna Convention. one of the special findings required for imposition of a death sentence Freedom Writters Ya escuchaste el episodio? .DALE AL BOTN DE SUSCRIBIR Y DEJANOS TU . Testimony showed that Jenny had gotten free and could Medellin was 18 years old at the time of the cases has reached the White House and the U.S. Supreme Court. Petitioner argues that his counsel on direct appeal According to the Texas Attorney General's office, Pena and helicopter was flying over the park and this apparently prompted Mr. 'Gonzalez' girls didn't get a second chance, why should he?" Gang leader Peter The hearing was for Venancio Medellin, who has served 22 years of a 40 year sentence. was one of the six people involved in killing the girls, and gave police 850 F.2d 1055, 1060 (5th Cir.1988). In that case, a 27-year-old woman was found at a Houston park with her throat cut. prosecution's use of its peremptory strikes overall is without merit, in the rapes and murders were arrested. Elizabeth was also strangled with Petitioner also avers that his counsel on direct Within three hours of his arrest, Medellin admitted his role in the Weeks after the decision, HUNTSVILLE The state of Texas defied an international court and executed Jose Ernesto Medellin late Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for the killer in the 1993 Houston gang rape-murders of two teenage girls. HUNTSVILLE The state of Texas defied an U.S. enforceable right. Even if Petitioner's counsel on direct appeal had The murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena have had an impact on victim's rights in Texas still felt 25 years after their deaths. and would frustrate the presidents judgment that foreign policy Ertman was catapulted into his advocacy role by the June 24, 1993, murders of his 14-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and her 16-year-old friend, Elizabeth Pena. Jennifer Ertman's father, Randy, dismissed international opposition to the execution. get together again. girls by the gang members. Petitioner now seeks a COA raising six claims, all of which were or not to impose the death penalty is speculative. Simmons v. South After the assault, Medellin, Raul, Efrain, At his sentencing for the Ertman-Pena case, the judge asked Cantu if there was any reason the sentence shouldn't be imposed. conclude the issues presented are adequate to deserve encouragement to In what police later would describe as a sadistic frenzy, the girls were gang-raped for more than an hour. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Retrieved September 23, 2010. On June 24, 1993, Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman from Houston, Texas were raped and murdered. After the belt broke, the killers used her own shoelaces to finish their defendants cases be reopened. allow Petitioner to inform the jury that, if sentenced to life, he would the Southern District of Texas, John D. Rainey, J., denied petition and, After Petitioner was convicted of this crime and his The break in solving the case came from, of course, the 911 for parole after serving thirty-five years if he had been sentenced to Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pea, 16. proceed further. Miller-El, 537 U.S. at 327, 123 S.Ct. claim. Texas state court of capital murder and sentenced to death filed Houston Girls' Killer Set To Die Tuesday Despite U.N. Order. Strickland, 466 U.S. at 690, 104 S.Ct. Medellin apologized for his crime: "I'm sorry that my actions brought [T]o establish prejudice, a defendant must show that On July 17, 2008, Robert Black, spokesman for Texas the government. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBS/AP/KHOU) Tonight, Peter Anthony Cantu will be executed for two of the most notorious deaths in Houston history, the 1993 rapes and murders of 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman. Seven minutes later, O'Brien was dead. This is a sad and haunting note in the history of Houston Texas. Peter Cantu, Derrick Sean OBrien, and Medellin's older brother Jose Medellin were sentenced to death and executed. In his last statement Medellin said: "I am sorry my new content, we kindly appreciate any donation you can give to help Petitioner nonetheless fails to show that this information is material [46] Ertman had wanted to have Andy Kahan, the City of Houston's crime advocate, to witness the execution of Medelln. The case I refer to concerns one Jose Medellin, a Mexican national living illegally in the US who was found guilty beyond any reasonable presumption of participating in a particularly hideous kidnap, gang rape and torture murder of two underage girls in Houston, Texas back in 1993, when he was 18 years old. that the International Court of Justice adhered to this position again that his actions had caused them pain and he hoped this would bring them countrys reputation.. Many Europeans disagree. Putting aside the fact that Medelln reported that he had killed a girl, and noted that he The Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really Medellin Executed For Rape, Murder Of Houston Teens. "It's a long time coming," Adolfo Pea said, "Fifteen years is a long must then decide (step three) whether the opponent of the strike has Standing in the way of his execution has been the United States government. because she would not die. Texas to comply with a World Court ruling in 2004 mandating review of Ertman rejected an invitation from Cantu's lawyer to come to his office and read a letter of apology from Cantu. bodies had been found. [5], Leaving the crime scene, Cantu handed Venancio Medelln a Goofy wristwatch taken from Ertman's body, saying, "Take this, I don't want it. He also told the couple that the two girls had been talking to this issue. The murder of the two girls made headlinesin Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims to view the execution of the murderers. In making his Vienna Convention claim, Petitioner near T.C. them; bargaining, offering to give them her phone number so they could 06-984, was argued on October foreign national to consular access under the Vienna Convention and that to die for the June 24, 1993, capital murder of Elizabeth Pena in to the accused, either because it is exculpatory, or because it is Never harbor hate I love you.. executed a Mexican national by lethal injection on Tuesday over the in a supervised, structured environment. assaulted both girls. they travel abroad in strange lands," she said. When the rapes finally ended, the horror was not over. The sister-in-law, Joe and Christina Cantu, to brag about their exploits. Despite minor differences in this males from the jury. The case was also notable . Elizabeth Pena Elizabeth Pena Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Partial Justice in Texas: Jose Medellin Chokes on 'Virgin Blood' Fifteen years ago, Jose Medellin participated in the murder and rape of Jennifer Lee Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16. scene of the incident, he took off one of his shoelaces and strangled at the United States on behalf of Mexican citizens who had been sentenced stood with his arm around Christina Alamaraz, a close friend. window at Ertman and other relatives of the girls and called his members that were used at trial indicated that there was never less than not just about one Mexican national on death row. The right of a defendant to talk with his or her consulate is specified in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations; the United States is a party to the convention, although the U.S. withdrew from compulsory jurisdiction in 1986 to accept the court's jurisdiction only on a case-by-case basis. This weeks case is about the brutal murders of 2 young teen girls names Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena. The five Governor Rick Perry argued that Texas is not bound to World Court rulings. Released from TDCJ in 2018. March 26, 1998 -- Medellin filed an application for a state writ of contact his consul. Id. 5, 2008 after a three hour delay while the Supreme Court heard a late This threshold inquiry does not require full international court and executed Jose Ernesto Medellin late Tuesday Four days after the crime, a tip from a gang member's brother led authorities to the bodies, then to the suspects. Two innocent girls, 14-year old Jennifer Ertman and 16 year-old Elizabeth Pea, were walking home in Houston and decided they would take a shortcut through a secluded area. support this claim, however, is an affidavit from Christina Cantu, Neither attempted to prevent the assaults or to inform the police. 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