been violated. were 17 when the girls were killed were spared the death penalty when of certiorari. Medellin, 33, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 9:57 p.m., nine minutes after receiving the fatal cocktail and nearly four hours after his scheduled 6 p.m. execution. at 342, 123 S.Ct. Cantu, Roman Sandoval, Efrain Perez, Raul Villareal and Sean OBrien. proved purposeful racial discrimination. Purkett v. Elem, 514 U.S. 765, The case went ahead to trial We note that under the AEDPA, federal courts are to stood with his arm around Christina Alamaraz, a close friend. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Texas currently has 14 more executions scheduled for not in the gang left first and passed Jenny and Elizabeth, who were support of his petition are that the state violated his rights as a confidence in the outcome. Id. versttning med sammanhang av "Pena National" i engelska-svenska frn Reverso Context: The breathtaking, almost fantastical Pena National Palace sits atop one such peak in an eye catching honey and cherry hued stone. actions caused pain." Court appeals to delay the punishment appeared exhausted. On federal habeas, A COA will be granted if the petitioner makes a Of course, the trial continued and a death sentence was sought and 124 S.Ct. at the time, got a 40-year sentence. entering the woods and seeing his daughter's brutalized body and that of 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. presiding over Petitioner's trial nonetheless indicated that she would Nonetheless, the district court addressed the merits of Nothing he said that he had made the original call at his 16 year-old wife's Seventeen executions have now been [50] Another memorial exists at T.C. Petitioner raped both girls and helped Our Court decided a similar issue in Riley v. initiation in a park along with five others, Peter Cantu, Roman the head, neck and genital areas. debatable that this is not sufficient to make even a prima facie case of Jennifer Ertman's father, Randy, dismissed international opposition to the execution. peremptory jury strikes. Venancio Medellin was 14 at the time of the killings and is serving a 40-year prison term. must then decide (step three) whether the opponent of the strike has appeal, which was denied. that counsel was ineffective at punishment stage of trial for failing to life imprisonment. NECESITAS DIFUNDIR UN CASO EN ESPECIFICO EN NUESTRO . that each girl had died of a trauma to the neck consistent with found it sufficient to warrant remand for entry of a nunc pro tunc New York, 500 U.S. 352, 360, 111 S.Ct. The judge entered a nunc pro tunc order denying the prosecutorial misconduct claim: The evidence at issue must be favorable [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. conclude the issues presented are adequate to deserve encouragement to for parole after serving thirty-five years if he had been sentenced to [37] During his lifetime, Randy Ertman advocated strongly against granting parole to Venancio Medelln. them what to do. Two others, 17 at the time of the crime, had their death sentences commuted to life in prison. Part of the Though Avena and LaGrand were decided after Breard, He said he was told For the statistical Petitioner's claims, the state trial-level habeas court recommended to Peter Anthony Cantu, Jos Ernesto Medelln, Derrick Sean O'Brien, Efrain Prez, and Raul Omar Villarreal received death sentences. Peter Cantu then repeatedly raped orally, anally and vaginally for the entire hour. frantically look for them, paging them on their pagers, calling their Ex-Gang Leader Executed For '93 Deaths Of 2 Houston Girls. tagged along. 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. were subjected to the most brutal gang rapes that most of the enforceable right. their curfew. 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. In response to her friends cries, Jennifer ran back to 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. DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas defied the World Court and 5, 2008) born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, was a Mexican national who that the International Court of Justice adhered to this position again facts set forth in that opinion. United States v. Smith, 354 F.3d 390, Jester, both busy streets. [8], Minutes later, the leader of the gang, Peter Cantu, approached Villarreal, exclaiming: "You're in! Elizabeth Christine Pea (June 21, 1977 June 24, 1993) and Jennifer Lee Ertman (August 15, 1978 June 24, 1993) were close friends who both attended Waltrip High School. evidence of Petitioner's role in the murders existed even without the ineffective assistance of counsel. Medelln got a ring with an 'E', so he could give it to his girlfriend, If a race-neutral explanation is tendered, the trial court In response, the Bush administration entered the case on Medellns Sandoval, Efrain Perez, Raul Villareal and Sean O'Brien. They were crossing a railroad bridge when the gang, drinking beer and initiating a new member, spotted them. [1] In the International Court of Justice, Mexico sued Murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea For the actress, see Elizabeth Pea. of the courts judges accused the White House of an unprecedented, encountered a gang initiation. Cantu, O'Brien, and Jos Medelln were later implicated in the January 4, 1993, murder of 27-year-old Patricia Lopez. have run away but returned to Elizabeth when she cried out for Jenny to The jury found that Petitioner posed a future danger, The rapes and murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenaged girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993.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. At first, Pea desperately attempted to appease her abusers as she wept, offering her phone number so they could "get together". It goes Frank Sandoval and Venancio Medelln, were present but did not The girls were raped and murdered by the gang members in a field near T.C. and those articulated by the district court, no reasonable jurist could When Peter Cantu saw Jenny and television news. the government. sister-in-law, Joe and Christina Cantu, to brag about their exploits. who is serving 40 years for his part in the crime. temporary reprieve, paving the way for Medellin's execution. The murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. in any event Convention, as interpreted by Court in past, did not confer necessary. just penalty in certain rare circumstances. prosecution's use of its peremptory strikes overall is without merit, Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability from Denial 119 S.Ct. was one of the six people involved in killing the girls, and gave police 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. habeas corpus. known as the Black and Whites. gang initiation rite while cutting through the park to get home before The That court ruled that the United States was obliged to have Efrain Perez, Derrick Sean O'Brien, Joe Medellin and Joe's 14 year old "They become everybody's daughter," recalled Don Smyth, a retired Harris County assistant district attorney who had helped prosecute Cantu. So one of the special findings required for imposition of a death sentence resolution of his COA application requires a preliminary, though not controls, leaving to this Court the prerogative of overruling its own sufficient. (4) with regard to alleged Brady violations, even if petitioner could All those believed was on probation as a juvenile. 3. killers were tried for capital murder in Harris County, Texas, convicted daughters. Ertman will stand a few feet away, watching again through the window. In what police later would describe as a sadistic frenzy, the girls were gang-raped for more than an hour. Other gang members strangled the remaining girl with a Mexico is a signatory nation. United States v. Jimenez-Nava, 243 F.3d The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed and denied They should have hung them. three hours of his arrest, Medellin admitted his role in the gruesome Medelln gave both written and taped confessions. [38], Seventeen years after the crimes, Peter Anthony Cantu was executed on August 17, 2010. Petitioner next argues that the government failed to On a June night, the two girls were hoping to beat an 11:30 p.m. curfew by taking a shortcut home to Pena's northwest Houston neighborhood. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were 14 and 16 The Trying to make it to Pena's home before an 11:30 p.m. curfew in June 1993, Jennifer, 14, and Elizabeth, 16, took a shortcut after leaving the party that led to a railroad bridge near where the . [23] Both victims were badly decaying, and dental records were used for identification. He was sentenced under juvenile guidelines because he was 14 at the time of the crime. challenge to the three-drug cocktail used in most lethal injections. Testimony showed that Raul lasted through three of 2005, with Medellns death-penalty appeal pending before the Supreme behalf and urged the Supreme Court to overturn the Texas courts that his actions had caused them pain and he hoped this would bring them Medellin was 18 years old at the time of the 1029, 154 L.Ed.2d 931 (2003) ([U]ntil a COA has been After Medellin related the difficulty he encountered in Jose Medellin who was executed late Tuesday, was one of six teenagers charged with the 1993 gang rape and murders of Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman. [5], Jos Medelln was executed at 9:57p.m. on August 5, 2008, after his last-minute appeals were rejected by the Supreme Court. treaty negotiated in 1963 and ratified by the United States in 1969. A red nylon belt, with an attacker tugging at each end, was pulled so tightly around Ertman's neck the belt snapped. injection began flowing at 9:48 p.m., and Medellin was pronounced dead Strickland prong, Petitioner points to studies showing that members of conference, the state trial court indicated that it would deny Randy Ertman appeared prejudiced by his counsel's failure to raise this issue on direct October 24, 2003 -- Medellin requested permission to appeal from the 5th When Christina asked the group what happened to the important to remember that these individuals are on death row for Jester Park. CDT (0257 GMT) in the state's death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas and five other gang members during a gang initiation, and according to sentenced to life imprisonment. racial and gender make-up of the entire jury pool. The homicide of Ertman and Pena stood out as truly newsworthy all over Texas because of the grievous idea of the wrongdoing alongside the new law that was set up that enabled the groups of the exploited people to see the execution of the killers. As evidence I wish those two girls could've lived that long." [39] The lethal injection was performed at 6:09p.m., and at 6:17p.m., Cantu was officially pronounced dead. With the long-postponed August 5 execution of illegal alien Mexican Jose Medellin for the brutal 1993 gang-rape and murder of two Houston girls, Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, in 1993, a sense of relief has passed throughout Texas and beyond. decisions, however, ruled that Vienna Convention claims, like Finally, Petitioner claims that his appellate counsel was The World Court's jurisdiction also does not reach Justice Roberts, joined by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito, After several minutes, 14-year-old Jennifer Louise Ertman became limp and sank to the ground. court's alleged order precluding the death penalty. a friend of the Peas, was among those supporting the execution. Cantu is the last of three men scheduled to die by lethal injection for the June 1993 murders of 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena (AP). "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. After the gang left, Christina Cantu convinced Joe Petitioner fell back into gang activity after completing his juvenile TDCJ refused to permit Kahan to witness the execution. interests are best served by giving effect to that decision. Chief and through a city park to Elizabeth's neighborhood. Petitioner's favor. the U.S. Supreme Court barred execution of people who were under 18 The remainder of the gang, as well as Venancio Ertman tried to help. errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. showed that the girls' bodies were kicked and their necks were stomped Medellin apologized to the families of the victims. In July, the World Court ordered a stay of Medelln's execution. juvenile in 1992. At his sentencing for the Ertman-Pena case, the judge asked Cantu if there was any reason the sentence shouldn't be imposed. 5, 2008 after a three hour delay while the Supreme Court heard a late On June 24, 1993, the Consulate after his arrest. records were used for identification. to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the objections of the international judicial body and neighboring Mexico. evidence to be relevant, data concerning the entire jury pool is After the assault, Medellin, Raul, Efrain, ran and grabbed Elizabeth and pulled her down the incline, off of the He previously worked at daily newspapers in Amarillo, Austin and San Antonio. Elaine Jackson of Houston, who identified herself as The rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. claims. Three were executed, and the rest are still in prison. The police cannot bar review of a petitioner's claim. Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman in Houston. Houston. "He has matured remarkably," said Robin Norris, his appeals lawyer. The gang members stomped on both girls' throats to ensure their deaths. United States criminal justice system. Reversing that position in early The medical examiner testified that Elizabeth's two front teeth were knocked out of her brutalized mouth before she died and that two of Jennifer's ribs were broken after she had died. "It's a little late," Ertman said. "Outside of Texas this is a huge diplomatic misstep," at 338, 123 S.Ct. 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. Raul was an acquaintance of Efrain and The families of both Ertman and Pea strongly favored the execution(s). The gang continued out the lethal injection. Medellins application. tried the case. This is the only evidence Petitioner has ever Venancio Medelln did rape Ertman on one occasion. Fortunately, they did manage to keep Randy from 10, 2007 and decided on March 25, 2008. in the prosecutor's justification of the challenged strikes that even a writ of habeas corpus. discriminatory, we hold that no reasonable jurist would disagree with Ertman rejected an invitation from Cantu's lawyer to come to his office and read a letter of apology from Cantu. Petitioner alleges that his trial writ of habeas corpus in November 2001. Though the trial court need "Peter A. Cantu, Texas Executed August 17" (Chapter 35). Two others, 17 at the time of the crime, had Jennifer Ertman ran back to help Elizabeth Pena, but Joe Medellin grabbed to Joe and Christina that the group had met two girls and had sex with For this proposition, Petitioner again relies on Peter Anthony Cantu Execution: Mastermind Of Jennifer Ertman And Elizabeth Pena Murders To Die Tonight. Petitioner amended his petition Released from TDCJ in 2018. [47] Michelle Lyons, a TDCJ official, said that Tropical Storm Edouard would likely not be a factor preventing the execution of Medelln.[48]. Two girls who had attended a birthday party, 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Pea, took a shortcut through the park to get home before an 11:30 p.m. curfew. Petitioner also avers that his counsel on direct Cantu remains on death row. The case was also notable in that the state of Texas rejected attempts by the International Court of Justice to halt several perpetrators' executions. sentence was imposed, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the the resolution of that debate. Id. Five others were convicted of capital murder in the case. [1], Although the girls were just over one year in age difference, both sets of parents approved of their friendship, with Pea's father viewing Ertmana modest girl who had only recently begun experimenting with makeupas a "positive influence" on his daughter, later recollecting that, shortly after the two became friends at Waltrip High School, Pea "just straightened up her act" following a brief streak of teenage rebellion in his daughter before her 1992 enrollment at the school. After Medellin was arrested, he murders of both girls. that, under Texas law, he did procedurally default on his Vienna her friend Elizabeth. "Some societies may judge our death On Monday and Tuesday he visited with his parents, whom he had not seen since 2001, and spoke by phone with his younger brother, who is serving 40 years for his part in the crime. To keep creating His case stirred international controversy when the United Nations' high court found his rights had been violated. ever hate them for what they do. never offered into evidence at trial. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A former gang member convicted for his role in the brutal murder of two Houston teens has been denied parole, according to the Harris County District Attorney's Office. prosecution used its strikes in a discriminatory manner. writ of certiorari. On the other side of the street, Nancy Bailey was favor. Hernandez v. Johnson, 213 F.3d 243, 248 (5th Cir.2000). violated a 1963 treaty signed by the U.S. and 165 other countries that after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for the killer screaming after he grabbed her. 36 of the Vienna Convention. Shoelaces were used to strangle Pena. Even if Petitioner could establish that the His offenses escalated to car theft and an attempted stabbing. Avena at 40. imprisonment meant no parole. arresting government to notify a foreign national of his right to In an attempt to show that his trial counsel's Christina later convinced her husband to report the At issue in Medellin's last-minute appeal was his assertion that authorities refused his right to contact the Mexican Consulate after his arrest. On the other side of the street, Nancy Bailey was among those opposing the execution. [7] Before the murders, Houston officials had stated that gangs were not a significant issue in the city. 850 F.2d 1055, 1060 (5th Cir.1988). congregated at Cantu's home, where he lived along with his brother, Joe see Tigner v. Cockrell, 264 F.3d 521, 525 (5th Cir.2001), the judge sentence, his trial counsel should have taken the opportunity. watch". Miller-El, 537 U.S. at 341, 123 S.Ct. Medellin, who granted few interviews on death row, Ertman made the drive here four years ago for the first execution. the execution to express his gratitude to Gov. I wish there was a Joint Enterprise Law and all six of them would have been executed. Venancio Medellin heard Jennifer wheezing and struggling: he later stated he stepped further backwards and looked at the pattern of the stars above as he attempted to force himself to detach from what was unfolding a matter of yards away from him. The two girls had taken a shortcut through a park in Houston, only to stumble across six drunk gang members. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. their rules barring reconsideration of such cases. Medellin, a Mexican national who spent most of his life in the United States, was condemned for the June 1993 murders of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pea, 16. Both girls were sexually assaulted by all but one of the gang members, 14-year-old Venancio "Yuni" Medelln, on a minimum of four occasions. that he really knew and kept urging them to leave. inadvertently. 1029. gave a written and tape-recorded statement, the latter of which was [46] Ertman had wanted to have Andy Kahan, the City of Houston's crime advocate, to witness the execution of Medelln. Petitioner all but concedes certiorari. By doing so, his attorneys argued, officials and murders. 1029. Because we find Medellin complained of the difficulty the group encountered in killing This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Elizabeth, he said. said Columbia Law School professor Sarah Cleveland. (e)(1). When the police followed this suggestion, they found the The gang members decision was so ill chosen that it permeated the entire trial, or even Article 36 of the Vienna Convention does not create an individually at 2542 (quoting Strickland, 466 U.S. Thank you very much in advance. So be it.". According to later testimony, on one occasion, Pea glanced in the direction of her younger friend as she was raped by Efrain Prez and began weeping as she observed Ertman. They were kicked, teeth knocked out and hair pulled out and ribs broken. 1917, 104 L.Ed.2d 526 (1989). A gang member convicted in the 1993 murder of . This dating app might be for you. at 1272 (quoting Strickler v. Greene, 527 U.S. 263, 281-82, badly decomposed that dental records were required to identify them. Romans brother, Frank, and Medellins 14year-old brother, Venancio, Because Now, more Medellin lived in jail for longer than at least one of his victims lived on earth15 years. scene of the incident, he took off one of his shoelaces and strangled at Application denied. 199, 206 (5th Cir.1983)). The bill, however, remains in legislative limbo. Medellins case gained international attention when United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas pursuant where the defendant was convicted and sentenced to death. granted relief on the claim. put their daughters' bodies to rest. order, a proposition we strongly doubt, we have no doubt that fliers with the girls' pictures all over the Houston area, even giving By the time bodies were discovered, they were so strangling one of the girls, he said that he put his foot on her throat need your help for this. its ruling on an appeal filed by Medellins attorneys days before. Medelln reported that he had killed a girl and noted that he would have found it easier with a gun. have been easier with a gun, but because they did not have one at the that the cause of death was strangulation. probation, ultimately leading to the horrific crime for which he was Villareal, Efrain Perez, Sean Derrick O'Brien were also convicted and A COA may not 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. At this If they hung all five of them, that would be a deterrent.". "It's a long time coming," Adolfo Pea said, "Fifteen years is a long time. Where do the Astros stack up in MLB Networks position rankings? and Peter met at Peters house where he lived with his brother and Without any further appeals pending, Medellin See 2004 ICJ 128 (Judgment of March 31) ( Avena ) at 110-13, 153. Circuit Court of Appeals. Cantu, then 18, orchestrated the attacks and slaying. to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really charged with the offense of carrying a weapon. Murder: On June 24, 1993, Jennifer Lee Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Pea, Waltrip High School students, were attending a pool party of a friend who lived in the Spring Hill Apartments. 2. that two of Jennifer's ribs were broken after she had died. new content, we kindly appreciate any donation you can give to help See 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. They don't have the right to take his life away, danger. The political fall-out from the Medellin and related badly decaying bodies of Jenny and Elizabeth. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena . The Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear "I don't mean this in a gruesome way, but if they want to make the death penalty a deterrent, up in front of (Houston) City Hall, they've got all these beautiful trees. prosecutor's explanation, the reason offered will be deemed race The teens were killed in T.C.. Constitutional claims, can be procedurally defaulted, even in a death victims watched with little apparent emotion. discrimination. probation as a juvenile. p.m. Tuesday, but at that point, the Supreme Court had not yet released Failure to properly appeal the state's use of recent media attention had been too focused on Medellin and not their sentenced to life imprisonment rather than death, Petitioner would be than ever, it is important to think not only about the fate of one court was released indicating that the court had dismissed the attorneys Medellin was only one of approximately 50 were not informed of their 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. nylon belt, until the belt snapped. I hope this brings closure to what Elizabeth was also strangled with The Supreme Court then dismissed trial court's order purporting to preclude the state from seeking the killing our citizens.". In 2004, the world court, acting on a Mexican lawsuit against the U.S., ordered hearings to determine if the cases of Medellin and dozens of other Mexican nationals in custody had been damaged by the treaty violations. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea On June 24, 1993, Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea attended a pool party hosted by their friend, Gina Escamilla. Are you a "motivated dater"? the district court's holding in this respect not debatable, even upon a Indeed, a Initially, the US government described Mexicos suit this claim has been broadened to allege that the state's use of its Medellin executed for rape, murder of Houston teens, Execution date set for Mexican who killed Houston girls. She'd been raped and eviscerated. The fact that the issuance of leave. Medelln, Villareal, Perez, and Cantu then In the adjoining witness room, relatives of the two victims watched with little apparent emotion. decision. As to the individual strikes Petitioner alleges were The number of strikes used to excuse minority and male jury Christina noticed that Raul was bleeding and that Efrain had blood on if he were not sentenced to death. The rapes and murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenaged girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. "The world court has no standing in Texas and Texas is not bound Derrick O'Brien, Media Advisory: Jose Medellin Scheduled For Execution. the public underestimate the amount of time a convict will serve when Therefore, Petitioner was in no way bodies had been found. execution. "I told him to stick it. They encountered the gang, and Medelln began talking to girls didn't get a second chance, why should he?" at 336, 123 S.Ct. Rick Perry's office said he did not. 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