Jose Medellin
Jose Medellin, a Mexican national, is 18 years of age when he participated in the gang rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman, 14, (white) and Elizabeth Pena, 16, (Latina) in Harris County, Texas on June 24, 1993. He is subsequently found guilty and sentenced to death.1
Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that the Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimately will sort out. Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state’s plan to execute a Jose Ernesto Medellin for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.2
The U.S. Supreme Court got it half-right Tuesday when it ruled that President Bush lacked the authority to tell courts in Texas to honor a decision of the International Court of Justice and reopen the case of a Mexican citizen on Texas’ death row. But it should have acted on its own authority to give Jose Medellin another day in court.3
Facts of the Case. Jose Medellin, a Mexican national, was convicted and sentenced to death for participating in the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston.4
The case involves the 1993 conviction and death sentence of Jose Medellin for the rape and murder of two young girls in Houston, Texas. Medellin is a Mexican citizen who has lived in Texas most of his life.5
The case involves the 1993 conviction and death sentence of Jose Medellin for the rape and murder of two young girls in Houston, Texas. Medellin is a Mexican citizen who has lived in Texas most of his life.6