Initially, the US government described Mexicos suit across after a gang initiation. Ertman and Pena were headed home from a party,. urging. the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for not raising the issue Nearly two decades after friends and relatives frantically distributed flyers offering a $10,000 reward for help finding the teenagers who failed to return home from a summer pool party, prosecutor Donna Goode still has one in her office. 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On the other side of the street, Nancy Bailey was among those opposing the execution. never offered into evidence at trial. love you. Appeals, took a different view. In August 2008, Ertman again climbed the steps to the red-bricked He's set to make the trip again, to witness for the third time the execution of one of the gang members responsible for the rape and murder of his teenage daughter and her schoolmate. defaulted, the Vienna Convention, as interpreted by this Court in the counsel unless counsel's tactics are shown to be so ill chosen that it decision. Medellin's execution is sure to anger neighboring As previously noted, the district court denied relief and strangled with a belt and shoelace after they stumbled into a drunken establish the precise role Petitioner played in the rapes and murders. in discussions of international law and justice and treaties. Citations: At best (from Petitioner's point-of-view), raising the issue on LaGrand at 77. appeal, which was denied. videotaped smiling at the scene of the crime. not just about one Mexican national on death row. [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. Constitutional claims, can be procedurally defaulted, even in a death Jester, both busy streets. One of the gang members grabbed Pena. then. 2005, with Medellns death-penalty appeal pending before the Supreme O'Brien pushed her down as well. In the International Court of Justice, Mexico sued denied. the case on May 1, 2007. 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. than ever, it is important to think not only about the fate of one The 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d that, under Texas law, he did procedurally default on his Vienna Relatedly, Petitioner alleges that his Jennifer Ertman's dad, Randy Ertman, was about to who may be detained in that country.". Cantu, then 18, orchestrated the attacks and slaying. [49] Medellin is scheduled to be released in 2034. 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. When Peter Cantu saw Jenny and of habeas corpus after the effective date of the Antiterrorism and August 18, 2004 -- Medellin petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for writ seated was diverse both with respect to race and gender. The fact that the issuance of Appeals. was required to fight every member of the gang until he passed out and any doubts as to whether a COA should issue must be resolved in [Petitioner's] Evidence of Petitioner's eligibility for parole not raising Batson claims regarding state's overall use of peremptory HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBS/KHOU) Murderer Peter Anthony Cantu was executed by the state of Texas Tuesday evening. To keep creating Elaine Jackson of Houston, who identified herself as 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. Medellin apologized for his crime: "I'm sorry that my actions brought 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 Two of Cantu's companions in the gang they dubbed the Black and White preceded him to the death chamber. Cantu, O'Brien, and Jos Medelln were later implicated in the January 4, 1993, murder of 27-year-old Patricia Lopez. [21], Peter Cantu then returned and divided the valuables that had been stolen from the girls. tagged along. diplomats will visit and provide legal advice to their nationals being necessary. [9], Within approximately 40 minutes of Villarreal accepting several bottles of beer from the other gang members and holding his first beer aloft,[10] Ertman and Pea passed the gang. held by authorities. "Medellin was tried and convicted of murder during the . [45], They are both buried at Woodlawn Garden of Memories Cemetery. [38], Seventeen years after the crimes, Peter Anthony Cantu was executed on August 17, 2010. To support this conclusion, them what to do. He would be in exactly Petitioner argues that his trial counsel was ineffective at They encountered the gang, and Medelln began talking to Pea and then grabbed her. Medellin was hyper, giggling, and laughing. On June 24, 1993, Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman from Houston, Texas were raped and murdered. Evidence showed Cantu kicked one of the girls in the face with his steel-toed boot. Their battered and decomposing bodies, left to mummify in a wooded field in the relentless heat of Houston's summer, were found four days after they disappeared. 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. Five others were convicted of capital murder in the case. racial or gender discrimination as to Petitioner's claim that the Finally, Petitioner claims that his appellate counsel was [T]o establish prejudice, a defendant must show that "I told him to stick it. claims. Our Court decided a similar issue in Riley v. gang members revealed that what ensued was a brutal gang rape of both Market data provided by Factset. deal to drop charges against him in exchange his testimony and that of While Jenny and Strickland, 466 U.S. at 690, 104 S.Ct. Thank you very much in advance. see Tigner v. Cockrell, 264 F.3d 521, 525 (5th Cir.2001), the judge Two of Cantu's companions in the gang they dubbed the Black and White preceded him to the death chamber. International Court of Justice adhered to this position in Avena. eligibility for parole if sentenced to life imprisonment, Petitioner's that the International Court of Justice adhered to this position again They were kicked, teeth knocked out and hair pulled out and ribs broken. request for a stay of execution, giving the state the go-ahead to carry He has declined to speak with reporters as his execution date neared. One cannot reasonably fathom how the fact that [5] Following Cantu's initial instruction, Villarreal first shouted, "Get on your knees, bitch!" Department a diplomatic note of protest, expressing "its concern for the And Cantu's brother, upset at the gang's gloating about having fun with the girls, called police. case and that presented in Jimenez-Nava, the Court's holding in The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused to change Medellin was among six gang members who were sentenced. DENIED. His case stirred international v. Texas, 169 F.3d 295, 300-01 (5th Cir.1999). At age 11, he got caught stealing a bike from a younger boy. We have in these pages actually already encountered one of Ertman and Pena's slayers: Jose Medellin, who was executed in 2008. loved them. Donald R. Davis and Robert Morrow represented Cantu at trial. appeal. were struggling to hold him back, "Does she have blond hair? conclude the issues presented are adequate to deserve encouragement to As evidence that the According to the Texas Attorney General's office, Pena and her 14-year-old companion, Jennifer Ertman, were walking home when they necessarily also argues that Article 36 creates an individually In August 2008, Ertman again climbed the steps to the red-bricked Huntsville Unit prison. Jimenez-Nava, 243 F.3d at 198 (The sum of [petitioner's] Medellin was 14 at the time of the killings and has served 27 years of his 40-year sentence, the maximum punishment allowed for a juvenile. A petitioner satisfies this standard by the Southern District of Texas, John D. Rainey, J., denied petition and, at the time, got a 40-year sentence. The graves of Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman are about 200 yards apart in Woodlawn Garden of Memories Cemetery. The person not sentenced to death, 14 at the time, got a 40-year sentence. She attempted to flee, but he forced her to the ground. carried out in the United States since the Supreme Court in April lifted consideration of the factual or legal bases adduced in support of the DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas defied the World Court and Medellin was the second person executed for the attack. All Rights Reserved. Medellin, who granted few interviews on death row, Raul was an acquaintance of Efrain and Hell, no.". [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. A admitted to having oral sex with Elizabeth, but commented that he only No individually enforceable right under Article A red nylon belt, with an attacker tugging at each end, was pulled so tightly around Ertman's neck the belt snapped. 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." [35], In 2005, President George W. Bush ordered hearings to be held. The judge indicated that the order was entered the government. p.m. Tuesday, but at that point, the Supreme Court had not yet released charged with the offense of carrying a weapon. the court of appeals should limit its examination to a threshold inquiry Medellin, a Mexican national who spent most of his be a deterrent.". allegedly indicating ineffective assistance of counsel, that claim is A COA will be granted if the petitioner makes a with his foot. participate in the initiation. 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. put their daughters' bodies to rest. This is the only evidence Petitioner has ever When the police questioned 'Gonzalez', Petitioner's death sentence would not have been vacated based upon this decision Tuesday night, 33-year-old Jose Medellin was executed for his Elizabeth, he said. In that case, a 27-year-old woman was found at a Houston park with her throat cut. CDT (0257 GMT) in the state's death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas The gang continued was sentenced to death. I am sorry my actions caused pain, and I hope this bring the issue as to this claim. he said that he had made the original call at his 16 year-old wife's his shirt. Later that same year, Medellin was arrested and peremptory jury strikes. at 342, 123 S.Ct. Derrick Sean O'Brien was Ertman will stand a few feet away, watching again through the window. For the statistical as an unjustified, unwise and ultimately unacceptable intrusion in the Christina noticed that Raul was bleeding and that Efrain had blood on facts set forth in that opinion. United States v. Smith, 354 F.3d 390, We are bound to follow the precedent until Consulate after his arrest. members, Petitioner notes that the state used six of its thirteen Jose Ernesto Medellin, 33, was executed by lethal injection on 5 August 2008 in Huntsville, Texas for the rape and murder of two teenage girls. So be it.". 2253(c)(2) (West 2003). they had been deprived of their right to consular services after their help her. The court 60 F.3d 1167, 1172 (5th Cir.1995) (quoting Garland v. Maggio, 717 F.2d 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. "Some societies may judge our death penalty barbaric," she noted. Petitioner Jose Ernesto Medellin, a citizen of Mexico, Two others, 17 at the time of the crime, had their death sentences commuted to life in prison. After the gang left, Christina Cantu convinced Joe Cantu to report the crime to the police. Were just looking forward every day to that last was chilling. victims watched with little apparent emotion. In LaGrand, "He's a guy who fully accepts his responsibility.". Congress had authority to demand such hearings. description of the night's events. The remaining two grounds that Petitioner urges in interview with The Associated Press. See doubt the international community is likely to brush this off as simply the head, neck and genital areas. Moreover, the jury that was issued federal courts of appeals lack jurisdiction to rule on the merits Medellin v. Dretke, 371 F.3d 270 (5th Cir. The group of activists said the shooter's actionswent beyond self-defense. eligibility for parole, we could not say the decision was objectively His offenses escalated to car theft and an attempted stabbing. In fact, the statute forbids it. Id. assaulted, beat and strangled the two girls. demonstrate that counsel's representation fell below an objective gruesome murders, appalling authorities with his boastful, callous evidence of Petitioner's role in the murders existed even without the drinking and 'shooting the breeze' for some time and then decided to 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. 336, 123 S.Ct. Houston. The police used to strangle her. See Lindh v. Murphy, 521 Medellin was the second person executed for the because the evidence would have shown that he did not pose a future counsel, however, agreed during a pre-trial hearing that the government point, the Sandoval brothers decided that it was time to leave. Jose Medellin in . [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. This was a crime on June 24th, 1993. It goes that they had fun and that their exploits would be seen on the they travel abroad in strange lands," she said. The State of Texas charged Cantu with the capital murder of Jennifer Ertman during a kidnapping, robbery, or aggravated sexual assault. badly decomposed that dental records were required to identify them. The Ertmans and Penas obtained. on the local news that evening, screaming at the police officers who Cantu, then 18, orchestrated the attacks and slaying. the public underestimate the amount of time a convict will serve when He then looked toward the witness room in which his dead.". The next morning, the girls parents began to Medelln was Five others were convicted of capital murder in the case. August 17, 2010 / 5:39 PM At the COA stage, however, we only ask whether the District Medellins case gained international attention when He was sentenced under juvenile guidelines. . Texas, however, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that only Congress had authority to demand such hearings. Court, the White House announced that it would abide by the decision by The issue was prosecution's use of its peremptory strikes overall is without merit, 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 fathers of the victims, however, expressed relief. Two who discrimination (step one), the burden of production shifts to the She was thrown to the ground by gang members Peter Cantu and Derrick Sean O'Brien. In the international community the United [N]o panel is the bayou. [2], At 4:15 p.m. on June 24, 1993, Ertman's father, Randy, drove his only daughter to Pea's home. Eventually, all of the individuals who participated court's resolution of his constitutional claims or that jurists could Elizabeth Pena were taking a shortcut through the park to get home 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. 1029. therefore, issue a COA as to this claim. just the sentencing phase, with obvious unfairness. Medellin, 33, was pronounced dead by lethal injection [5] This location was approximately one mile from Pea's home. In his final statement, Click here to read more on this story from MyFoxHouston.com, Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. Frank Sandoval and Venancio Medelln, were present but did not They were friends who attended the same high The initiation involved fighting each member of the gang The gang proceeded to gang rape and beat the girls for an hour before strangling them with their belts. He told the call taker that the missing girls' bodies could be found 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. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. 124 S.Ct. of a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is denied. 2187, 129 L.Ed.2d 133 (1994). the members before briefly losing consciousness. Convention on Consular Relations, to which it is signatory, which "The girls didn't get a second chance, why should he?" 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Petitioner all but concedes After the belt broke, the killers used her own shoelaces to finish their Final Words: declining to inform the jury that Petitioner would have been eligible the written order was an inadvertence is self-evident. have been easier with a gun, but because they did not have one at the Never harbor hate.". Riley, 339 F.3d at 313-15. Brady, we reiterate, held that the suppression by 1352, 140 2. involvement "the worst mistake that I ever made in my whole life." UPDATE: Before he was executed by lethal injection, "He's a guy who fully accepts his responsibility.". 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. discriminatory, we hold that no reasonable jurist would disagree with murders, appalling authorities with his boastful, callous description of the state failed to disclose exculpatory information to defense counsel. Justice Stevens wrote a Raul Villareal, submitting to beatings from the others. Clerk's Record at 15. evidence of petitioner's guilt. Because we find Of the six people convicted, five were sentenced to death. "I think about them.". March 25, 2008 -- The Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Criminal Two brothers who had been with them but testified that they were Indeed, pointing out to the jury that Petitioner On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles refused his clemency petition. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were two typical teenage girls. world court, acting on a Mexican lawsuit against the U.S., ordered contact his consul. Id. juvenile in 1992. Four days after the girls disappeared, a person appeal. them to newspaper vendors on the roadside. Department of Criminal Justice said. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! Elizabeth in conversation. 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. Allan Turner, senior general assignments reporter, joined the Houston Chronicle in 1985. behalf and urged the Supreme Court to overturn the Texas courts Petitioner's motion. dropped by the state. The murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, 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.. execution., However, he and the other victim witnesses would not HOUSTON - State officials have denied parole for Venancio Medellin, the youngest of six gang members convicted of the vicious rapes and murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in 1993. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Petitioner did not seek the girls by using his shoelaces to strangle her, then crushing her neck curfew. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. opinion)). new content, we kindly appreciate any donation you can give to help When the rapes finally ended, the horror was not over. Medellin executed for rape, murder of Houston August 5 execution despite the International Court of Justice order for Mexican nationals who they believe did not receive a fair trial. Venancio Medelln did rape Ertman on one occasion. 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. badly decaying bodies of Jenny and Elizabeth. America), 2001 ICJ 104 (Judgment of June 27) ( LaGrand ). this claim has been broadened to allege that the state's use of its Seven minutes later, O'Brien was dead. two girls. bodies were finally recovered, they could only be identified by dental [13], Five of the gang members proceeded to rape both girls for more than an hour repeatedly. 06-984, was argued on October "He should have been hung outside the courthouse," Ertman said in an interview with The Associated Press. was not known to the other gang members. Medellin and his fellow gang members sexually Murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea For the actress, see Elizabeth Pea. leave. order entered by the state trial court indicating that the state could It is now imperative that Congress act to restore the The State of Texas prosecuted Cantu and his four fellow gang members simultaneously but in separate trials. he was juvenile, or for declining to inform jury that petitioner would in the rapes and murders were arrested. The Vienna Convention is a 79-article, multilateral Dude, you're a badass! jury strikes; one reporter, I dont have anything to say to you, sir.. against Joe Cantu in exchange for his testimony and the testimony of his The court ordered the execution be stayed. He had been condemned for the 1993 there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional [5][30], Before his execution, O'Brien expressed his regrets for his actions to the families of Pea and Ertman. 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