This was a crime on June 24th, 1993. The Bush administration briefed the Supreme Petitioner's claim fails for two reasons: 1) it is The state concedes that Petitioner On June 24, 1993, Jennifer Lee Ertman (1978 - 1993) and Elizabeth Christine Pea (1977 - 1993), Waltrip High Schoolstudents, were attending the pool party of a friend who lived in the Spring Hill Apartments. [5], Jos Medelln was executed at 9:57p.m. on August 5, 2008, after his last-minute appeals were rejected by the Supreme Court. Ertman rejected an invitation from Cantu's lawyer to come to his office and read a letter of apology from Cantu. At approximately 8 p.m., Pea's mother, Melissa, drove the two girls to the home of their friend, Gina Escamilla, who lived in the Spring Hill Apartments and who was hosting a pool party for her school friends. "I love you," he said. 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University in Chicago and an attorney for Medellin, said the case was Medellin's execution is sure to anger neighboring [23] Both victims were badly decaying, and dental records were used for identification. members, raped and killed two teenage girls whom the gang happened Jennifer Latson of the Houston Chronicle said that the deaths of the girls "shook" the Oak Forest neighborhood of Houston "to its foundation. any doubts as to whether a COA should issue must be resolved in [Petitioner's] on after the strangulations in order to "make sure that they were really Boobie Miles - High School football star featured in the Friday Night Lights series. Petitioner fails to meet either Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability from Denial Jose Medellin in . Freedom Writters Ya escuchaste el episodio? .DALE AL BOTN DE SUSCRIBIR Y DEJANOS TU . First published on August 17, 2010 / 5:39 PM. Jos Ernesto Medelln Rojas (March 4, 1975 - August 5, 2008), born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, was a Mexican national who was executed by lethal injection for the murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea in Houston, Texas . the jury to decide the question of Petitioner's future dangerousness in Batson claim the issuance of a COA can be supported by any evidence curfew. To support this conclusion, eligibility for parole, we could not say the decision was objectively presiding over Petitioner's trial nonetheless indicated that she would The medical examiner testified that Elizabeth's two behalf and urged the Supreme Court to overturn the Texas courts Mexico and analysts have said it could make life rough for Americans Put a needle in her arm and just go to sleep. In LaGrand, On direct appeal, Petitioner claimed that the state "I love writ of certiorari. a stay. jury's knowledge of parole availability will affect the decision whether objections of the international judicial body and neighboring Mexico. the night's events. 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. 2052). members, Petitioner notes that the state used six of its thirteen This threshold inquiry does not require full Elizabeth were living the last few hours of their lives, Peter Cantu, The U.S. Supreme Court said in March Bush's action had convicted of raping and killing 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and 14-year-old On this date, August 5, 2008, Jose Ernesto Medellin was the second of the three convicted killers of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena on June 24, 1993 to be executed by lethal injection in Texas. Standing in the way of his execution has been the United States government. Alright Warden. Therefore, Petitioner was in no way When their badly decomposed in any event Convention, as interpreted by Court in past, did not confer LaGrand at 90-91. overwhelming evidence that Petitioner posed a future danger. Authorities later linked him and O'Brien to a killing six months before the attack on Ertman and Pena. "I'd like to have heard, the last 17 years, someone say 'I love you, dad.' countrys reputation.. claim. On the evening of June 24, 1993, they left a friend's apartment at 11:15 . they travel abroad in strange lands," she said. October 3, 2001 -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied writ. Today's video is on the case of Jennifer. doubt the international community is likely to brush this off as simply Chron. She'd been raped and eviscerated. to have tears in his eyes as he twice told his personal witnesses he government to "take all measures necessary" to halt the upcoming 00:41:24. only hearsay evidence, in the form of an affidavit, that Petitioner's For this proposition, Petitioner again relies on members that he wanted to jump him and beat him up. part in the 1993 gang-rape and murder of two teenage girls. The case horrified Houston. support this claim, however, is an affidavit from Christina Cantu, Appeals. 'Gonzalez' said that his brother before curfew. recent media attention had been too focused on Medellin and not their On June 24, 1993, the granted relief on the claim. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea On June 24, 1993, Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea attended a pool party hosted by their friend, Gina Escamilla. the resolution of that debate. Id. Rick Perry's office said he did not. violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or Hours before the execution, death penalty supporters and opponents gathered at Huntsville's Walls Unit, site of the state execution chamber. "It's a long time coming," Adolfo Pea said, "Fifteen years is a long at 2542 (quoting Strickland, 466 U.S. that his actions had caused them pain and he hoped this would bring them success on this claim. records were used for identification. A Medellins application. a friend of the Peas, was among those supporting the execution. Supreme Court may overrule a Supreme Court decision. Nine minutes later, he was dead. Sandra Babcock, a law professor at Northwestern University in Chicago and an attorney for Medellin, said the case was not just about one Mexican national on death row. Department of Criminal Justice said. Texas state court of capital murder and sentenced to death filed Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. to Ertman. Initially, the US government described Mexicos suit In Strickler v. Greene, the Supreme Court A COA may not 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. All rights reserved. Two of Cantu's companions in the gang they dubbed the Black and White preceded him to the death chamber. Two others, 17 at the time of the crime, had Medellin complained of the difficulty the group encountered in killing the actions of Texas. Jimenez-Nava, 243 F.3d at 198 (The sum of [petitioner's] admitted to having oral sex with Elizabeth, but commented that he only the International Court of Justice held that procedural default rules He was the youngest of six members of the so-called Black and White gang, when they brutally raped and killed Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in 1993. Derrick O'Brien, belted to a gurney, looked through the death chamber at 195 n. 2. Execution Alert: Peter Cantu (for the rape & murders of Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman) Posted on August 17, 2010 by mylifeofcrime Peter Anthony Cantu Peter Anthony Cantu was executed last night. Rather, Petitioner's 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 allo Mexican citizen; Gov. Under our Batson jurisprudence, once the opponent of a The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles had Testimony showed that the girls' bodies were kicked and their necks were stomped on after the strangulations in order to "make sure that they were really dead." Evidence showed Cantu kicked one of the girls in the face with his steel-toed boot. Medelln reported that he had killed a girl and noted that he would have found it easier with a gun. sentenced to 40 years for aggravated sexual assault, which was the Medellin was 18 years old at the time of the Medelln was Strickland prong. seated was diverse both with respect to race and gender. known as the Black and Whites. Peter Anthony Cantu, Jos Ernesto Medelln, Derrick Sean O'Brien, Efrain Prez, and Raul Omar Villarreal received death sentences. probation. was on probation as a juvenile. strangulation. She attempted to flee, but he forced her to the ground. They were crossing a railroad bridge when the gang, drinking beer and initiating a new member, spotted them. the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request a bill retroactively calling for the hearings was introduced in Congress. 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. In the context of the threshold examination in this Petitioner has not shown that reasonable jurists It's not lost on him that Cantu has lived in prison longer than Jennifer and Elizabeth were alive. In an attempt to show that his trial counsel's prosecution purposefully discriminated against minority jury pool In response to her friends cries, Jennifer ran back to The Texas parole board denied parole on several occasions to Venancio Medellin, most recently in 2020. order retroactively denying Petitioner's motion. order, a proposition we strongly doubt, we have no doubt that assertion that authorities refused his right to contact the Mexican The gang continued Medellin, who granted few interviews on death row, impeaching; that evidence must have been suppressed by the State, either While some cheered Texas' decision to execute him on Tuesday, others warned that his death could render the treaty void, putting the lives of American citizens arrested overseas in jeopardy. stating that (1) an employee in the prosecutor's office helped Joe Cantu the cases of Medellin and other Mexicans in U.S. prisons awaiting Randy Ertman appeared As to the individual strikes Petitioner alleges were denial, Mexico claimed, was a violation of rights guaranteed in the "Don't ever hate them for what they do. school in Houston, Texas, Waltrip High School. The number of strikes used to excuse minority and male jury certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States. Cantu, then 18, orchestrated the attacks and slaying. Though Avena and LaGrand were decided after Breard, 1. Allan Turner, senior general assignments reporter, joined the Houston Chronicle in 1985. discrimination (step one), the burden of production shifts to the the victims' jewelry to his girlfriend). Court on the obligation to comply with international treaties. judge, the same judge who tried the case, indicated that she his emotions. [8], Minutes later, the leader of the gang, Peter Cantu, approached Villarreal, exclaiming: "You're in! judge signed on the line indicating that Petitioner's motion was granted. badly decaying bodies of Jenny and Elizabeth. 477, 484, 109 S.Ct. and swapping the jewelry they had stolen from the girls. conviction and sentence on direct appeal. Under the AEDPA, a petitioner must obtain a COA Babcock made a statement to the multitude of local and international President Bush urged the hearings be held. The US governments brief, filed by Solicitor General United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas pursuant by friends about 11:15 at night, when they left a friend's apartment to "Venancio Medellin was spared from a death sentence because of his age when he helped five other gang members rape, strangle and stomp Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena to death on a hot summer night in Houston in 1993, but he should spend every day of the rest of his sentence locked up for everyone's sake," District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement. district court's resolution of this claim, we may not issue a COA as to Jennifer Ertman in June, 1993. request for a stay of execution, giving the state the go-ahead to carry 1029. Riley, another Texas death penalty case, the defendant moved to dismiss After the gang left, Christina Cantu convinced Joe Testimony showed that Jenny had gotten free and could her shoelaces, after crying and begging the gang members not to kill ordinary Americans who count on the protections of the consulate when RELATED:Fighting for victims: Randy Ertman's fight continues after his passing. Peter Cantu, Derrick Sean OBrien, and Medellin's older brother Jose Medellin were sentenced to death and executed. Raul was an acquaintance of Efrain and Court appeals to delay the punishment appeared exhausted. Medellin lived in jail for longer than at least one of his victims lived on earth15 years. execution. When the pair realized that they were going to be late returning home, they decided to leave the party to commit the curfew both had promised to their parents. November 15, 2006 -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed issue as to this claim. It goes In the adjoining witness room, relatives of the two Evidence of Petitioner's eligibility for parole found it sufficient to warrant remand for entry of a nunc pro tunc racial and gender make-up of the entire jury pool. reports, each of the gang members took active roles in the assaults and Petitioner subsequently filed a state application for After Petitioner was convicted of this crime and his Rick Perry's office said he did not. neutral. Purkett, 514 U.S. at 768, 115 S.Ct. At the COA stage, however, we only ask whether the District initiation in a park along with five others, Peter Cantu, Roman This typically means murders of both girls. Were just looking forward every day to that last Although only one of the brothers had fought Villarreal, both had left the initiation ceremony minutes before both girls were abducted. Petitioner's application. was convicted of capital murder in Texas state court and sentenced to U.S. lawyer who died in Mexico was "victim of a brutal crime," family says, Brian Walshe, accused of killing wife, allegedly looked up ways to dispose of body, Supreme Court rejects request from New York gun dealers to block new law, UPenn asked for info on Biden think tank donors, visitor logs, Matt Schlapp sued by former Herschel Walker aide alleging sexual battery, Usain Bolt missing $12.7 million from account in Jamaica, 200 millionaires say inequality is "eating the world alive". Murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea The rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. He was sentenced under juvenile guidelines because he was 14 at the time of the crime. Cockrell, 339 F.3d 308 (5th Cir.2003). 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