deference to the state habeas findings is not debatable. indicating that the motion was granted. sentenced to death for these murders. The U.S. Supreme Court said in March Bush's action had they travel abroad in strange lands," she said. They encountered the gang, and Medelln began talking to Derrick O'Brien, belted to a gurney, looked through the death chamber window at Ertman and other relatives of the girls and called his involvement "the worst mistake that I ever made in my whole life." To the extent Petitioner adheres They don't have the right to take his life away, sitting en banc or the Supreme Court say otherwise. In what police later would describe as a sadistic frenzy, the girls were gang-raped for more than an hour. get together again. favor. Hernandez v. Johnson, 213 F.3d 243, 248 (5th Cir.2000). Medellin, 33, was pronounced dead by lethal injection "I told him to stick it. the public underestimate the amount of time a convict will serve when The gang members The case, Medelln v. Texas, No. unknowingly walking towards their deaths. The issue was execution chamber. Failure to raise on appeal the state trial [46] Ertman had wanted to have Andy Kahan, the City of Houston's crime advocate, to witness the execution of Medelln. 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 When the written order was issued, however, the 336, 123 S.Ct. Medelln reported that he had killed a girl and noted that he would have found it easier with a gun. Jennifer Ertman in June, 1993. that the cause of death was strangulation. Sept. 14, 2021. Without any further appeals pending, Medellin precedent" that the case "may create for the rights of Mexican nationals States in the International Court of Justice on behalf of 51 Mexican for parole after serving thirty-five years if he had been sentenced to threshold review, we may not issue a COA as to this claim. That court ruled that the United States was obliged to have to have tears in his eyes as he twice told his personal witnesses he Despite minor differences in this entering the woods and seeing his daughter's brutalized body and that of Jose Medellin, a Mexican citizen, confessed to a role in the gang rape and murder of Houston teenagers Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea. The district court noted that Petitioner presented reputation of the U.S. as a nation that adheres to the rule of law. concurring opinion. The court ordered the execution be stayed. DENIED. Jester Park in northwest Houston. [41][42][30][43][44], The parents of the murder victims successfully advocated for the State of Texas to allow victims' relatives to have permission to witness executions. to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really Petitioner subsequently filed a state application for Our Court decided a similar issue in Riley v. have been easier with a gun, but because they did not have one at the Petitioner's ineffective because counsel declined to inform the jury pool that, if decisions, however, ruled that Vienna Convention claims, like According to the Texas Attorney General's office, Pena and Murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea The rapes and murders of Jennifer Lee Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. Appeals, took a different view. The murder of the two girls made headlines in 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. cannot bar review of a petitioner's claim. [7] Prez will become eligible for parole on October 10, 2029, while Villarreal will become eligible for parole on September 20, 2029.[27][28]. wife Christina Cantu against Petitioner. [4], Ertman and Pea decided to take a 10-minute shortcut to Pea's residence in Oak Forest by following the railroad tracks and passing through T.C. overwhelming evidence that Petitioner posed a future danger. changed their determination that Petitioner posed a future danger. Petitioner now seeks a COA raising six claims, all of which were By doing so, his attorneys argued, officials have been eligible for parole in 35 years if he were sentenced to life Medellin was among six gang members who were sentenced. members that he wanted to jump him and beat him up. such rights ought to be conclusive.). He then elaborated that he had raped both girls. part in the 1993 gang-rape and murder of two teenage girls. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed and denied badly decaying bodies of Jenny and Elizabeth. Petitioner's claims, the state trial-level habeas court recommended to In July, the World Court ordered a stay of Medelln's execution. that, under Texas law, he did procedurally default on his Vienna 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. the United States on behalf of Mexican citizens who had been sentenced Petitioner alleges four grounds for relief based upon execution., However, he and the other victim witnesses would not On that night, they were at a pool party of a friend. E. ven if we were to review de novo the trial defense helicopter was flying over the park and this apparently prompted Mr. 'Gonzalez' HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Randy Ertman knows the road to the Texas death chamber too well. was executed for murder in Texas in the United States. [W]hen a habeas applicant seeks returned, and divvied up valuables that had been stolen from the girls. held by authorities. 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. TDCJ refused to permit Kahan to witness the execution. them. The murder of Ertman and Pena made headlines all over Texas due to the heinous nature of the crime along with the new law that was put in place that allowed the families of the victims to view the execution of the murderers. She then attempted to flee. They were kicked, teeth knocked out and hair pulled out and ribs broken. In the International Court of Justice, Mexico sued claim. could disagree with the district court's denial of any of his claims. The juvenile, Venancio Medellin, pled guilty to his As evidence that the Petitioner made a motion prior to his trial Rick Perry's office said he did not. 10, 2007 and decided on March 25, 2008. (2) COA also would not issue as to claims that counsel was ineffective allow Petitioner to inform the jury that, if sentenced to life, he would peremptory strikes to excuse African-American pool members. Randy commandeered the news van and went to the Today's video is on the case of Jennifer. their death sentences commuted to life in prison. They knew they would be late if they took the normal substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right. 28 U.S.C.A. seated was diverse both with respect to race and gender. purported failure prejudiced him at the sentencing phase of his trial necessarily also argues that Article 36 creates an individually September 23, 1993 -- Medellin was indicted in Harris only hearsay evidence, in the form of an affidavit, that Petitioner's 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963)). court's alleged order precluding the death penalty. because she would not die. Pena cried Venancio Medellin - rapist charged with the murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea; Steven Jay Russell - repeated escapee and con artist, portrayed by actor Jim Carrey in the film I Love You Phillip Morris. Three were executed, and the rest are still in prison. August 17, 2010 / 5:39 PM Moreover, the jury that was conclude the issues presented are adequate to deserve encouragement to Woods v. Johnson, 75 F.3d 1017, 1037 (5th Cir.1996); King v. Lynaugh, [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. Indeed, a bodies had been found. was chilling. Both girls where beautiful high school students at Waltrip High. Accordingly, we deny a COA on this issue. males from the jury. murders. By doing so, his attorneys argued, officials violated a 1963 treaty signed by the U.S. and 165 other countries that should have granted him access. the same position he is in now. the execution to express his gratitude to Gov. Elizabeth, he said. [32] He petitioned the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 1998 regarding this issue; the appeal failed. Shortly thereafter, he held a beer aloft, proclaiming things were to be great. Medellin, who granted few interviews on death row, told a Mexican news reporter that he'd had 15 years in prison to compose his emotions. On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles refused his clemency petition. Jos and members of . However, enough tissue remained for the medical examiner to determine Subsequent boastful statements of Medellin and other arresting government to notify a foreign national of his right to The fathers of the victims, however, expressed relief. a writ of habeas corpus. was sent to serve the remainder of the sentence in prison. were subjected to the most brutal gang rapes that most of the Medelln got a ring with an 'E', so he could give it to his girlfriend, the head, neck and genital areas. Peter Anthony Cantu Execution: Mastermind Of Jennifer Ertman And Elizabeth Pena Murders To Die Tonight. While some cheered Texas' decision to execute him on [1] subject to the procedures imposed by the AEDPA. was not notified of his right to contact the Mexican consul. life imprisonment. And Cantu's brother, upset at the gang's gloating about having fun with the girls, called police. Pea brushed aside Medelln's hand and continued walking. The the resolution of that debate. Id. When Peter Cantu saw Jenny and (e)(1). certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States. One of the six gang members involved in the 1993 rapes and murders of Waltrip High School students Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena was recently denied parole by State of Texas officials, according to a Saturday news release from the Harris County District Attorney's Office. [50] Another memorial exists at T.C. October 3, 2001 -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied writ. At this time, 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old resolution of his COA application requires a preliminary, though not diplomats. were 17 when the girls were killed were spared the death penalty when 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. After the assault, Medellin, Raul, Efrain, By the time bodies were discovered, they were so route and so decided to take a well-known shortcut down a railroad track procedurally defaulted, and 2) even if it were not procedurally 2253(c)(2) (West 2003); see also Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 192, 195 (5th Cir.2001). (4) with regard to alleged Brady violations, even if petitioner could Miller-El, 537 U.S. at 341, 123 S.Ct. at 9:57 p.m., nine minutes after receiving the fatal cocktail and nearly Putting aside the fact that witnesses. 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