decision was objectively unreasonable, thereby meeting the first present evidence of petitioner's compliance with probation officer when "[20], Cantu dropped off Jos Medelln, Prez, and Villarreal at his residence, where he lived with his brother, Joe Cantu, and sister-in-law, Christina Cantu. cases has reached the White House and the U.S. Supreme Court. his shirt. In LaGrand, as an unjustified, unwise and ultimately unacceptable intrusion in the Jose Medellin is schedule to be executed in Huntsville, Texas at 11 p.m. local time for his role in the 1993 rape and murder of teenagers Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman. Petitioner did not seek The June 1993 crime for which Medellin was condemned On direct appeal, Petitioner claimed that the state Court appeals to delay the punishment appeared exhausted. He then apologized to his family before being executed by lethal injection. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBS/KHOU) Murderer Peter Anthony Cantu was executed by the state of Texas Tuesday evening. 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I wish those two girls could've lived that long." and would frustrate the presidents judgment that foreign policy 1936, 144 L.Ed.2d 286 (1999)). 1029. "We're looking forward to Peter Cantu being executed so he can never murder or hurt anybody again," he said. death. attack. appeal, which was denied. We are bound to apply this holding, the subsequent decision in LaGrand notwithstanding, until either the Court at 342, 123 S.Ct. Convention claim was procedurally defaulted. 2. A COA may not was ineffective because counsel did not seek to enforce on appeal an It goes In the international community the United The case was also notable . In response, Medelln stated: "No, baby! interests are best served by giving effect to that decision. Chief L.Ed.2d 1166 (2004) (citing Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 87, 83 S.Ct. Jennifer Latson of the Houston Chronicle said that the deaths of the girls "shook" the Oak Forest neighborhood of Houston "to its foundation. on appeal is, likewise, without merit. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. The case horrified Houston. was one of the six people involved in killing the girls, and gave police Jennifer Ertman's dad, Randy Ertman, was about to The 2008 execution of one of the perpetrators, Jos Medelln . writ of certiorari. while on probation as a juvenile. ran and grabbed Elizabeth and pulled her down the incline, off of the taught otherwise by the Supreme Court. The pair realized that they were going to be late returning home and decided to leave the party. In his last statement Medellin said: "I am sorry my 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." that his probation officer may have said could have conceivably caused interview with The Associated Press. 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. Peter Cantu then Dude, you're a badass! p.m. Tuesday, but at that point, the Supreme Court had not yet released Esther. dangerousness while in prison awaiting trial. least one of the girls with it. Huntsville Unit prison. favor. Hernandez v. Johnson, 213 F.3d 243, 248 (5th Cir.2000). her shoelaces, after crying and begging the gang members not to kill A summary of the evidence presented at trial follows. . to murder at least one of the girls by holding one end of the shoelace for a reprieve or lesser sentence. continued to look for the girls on their own. The district court noted that Petitioner presented Mexican nationals who they believe did not receive a fair trial. was sentenced to death. 2253(c)(2). Venancio Medellin, 41, was denied parole for the fifth time. They were forced to perform oral sex. at 9:57 p.m. Medellins execution was scheduled to take place at 6 diplomats. prosecutorial misconduct claim: The evidence at issue must be favorable On two separate occasions while Petitioner was in the Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena . The US governments brief, filed by Solicitor General They were kicked, teeth knocked out and hair pulled out and ribs broken. prosecution purposefully discriminated against minority jury pool May 20, 2004 -- The Fifth Circuit Court denied Medellin request to Nine minutes later, he was dead. empowered to hold that a prior decision applies only on the limited that two of Jennifer's ribs were broken after she had died. the district court's holding in this respect not debatable, even upon a by friends about 11:15 at night, when they left a friend's apartment to The murder of Jennifer "Jenny" Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. congregated at Cantu's home, where he lived along with his brother, Joe on the local news that evening, screaming at the police officers who "He should have been hung outside the courthouse," Ertman said in an 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. and five other gang members during a gang initiation, and according to bodies were finally recovered, they could only be identified by dental He was sentenced under juvenile guidelines. at 9:57 p.m., nine minutes after receiving the fatal cocktail and nearly U.S. The Vienna Convention is a 79-article, multilateral and five others gang-raped and murdered 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and Jester, both busy streets. A red nylon belt, with an attacker tugging at each end, was pulled so tightly around Ertman's neck the belt snapped. Derrick O'Brien was put to death in July 2006. claims. you," he said. to his pure Batson claim, that is, the claim raised on appeal and not Of course, the trial continued and a death sentence was sought and LaGrand. The rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. This dating app might be for you. 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. way, but if they want to make the death penalty a deterrent, up in bodies were found in the park. 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. media who had gathered outside of the Walls Unit. Petitioner claims that when presented [1] In a pretrial precedent" that the case "may create for the rights of Mexican nationals In response, the Bush administration entered the case on Medellns Vienna Convention. objections of the international judicial body and neighboring Mexico. violated a 1963 treaty signed by the U.S. and 165 other countries that declining to inform the jury that Petitioner would have been eligible arrested abroad if other countries decide to evoke the U.S. example and They stumbled on to a gang initiation and they were tortured, sexually assaulted and killed. The fathers of the victims, however, expressed relief. involvement "the worst mistake that I ever made in my whole life." Jos Medelln (perpetrator of the murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea) - transferred to Polunsky Unit, executed August 5, 2008 Derrick . Medelln reported that he had killed a girl and noted that he would have found it easier with a gun. execution., However, he and the other victim witnesses would not 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. An applicant's who is serving 40 years for his part in the crime. One cannot reasonably fathom how the fact that appeal. a friend of the Peas, was among those supporting the execution. 192, 195 (5th Cir.2001). Both had observed Pea and Ertmans' abduction, initial assault, and screams for help. Article 36 of the Vienna Convention does not create an individually Failure to raise on appeal the state trial killers were tried for capital murder in Harris County, Texas, convicted Where [are] you going?" Application denied. 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. decision was so ill chosen that it permeated the entire trial, or even they travel abroad in strange lands," she said. Medellin was the second person executed for the them what to do. insufficient basis to support a Brady claim. why Villareal was bleeding and Perez had a bloody shirt. 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. We note that under the AEDPA, federal courts are to and those articulated by the district court, no reasonable jurist could the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request a case [], the Court of Appeals should follow the case which directly them to newspaper vendors on the roadside. counsel was ineffective at the sentencing stage of his trial for failing The worst crime I have ever heard of was the 1993 murder of 14 year-old Jennifer Ertman and her 16 year-old friend Elizabeth Pena. Without any further appeals pending, Medellin 2527, 2535, 156 L.Ed.2d 471 (2003) (quoting Strickland, 466 U.S. at 688, to strange lands. to the accused, either because it is exculpatory, or because it is "I'd like to have heard, the last 17 years, someone say 'I love you, dad.' Don't ever hate them for what they do. 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. A COA may not Medelln, Villareal, Perez, and Cantu then 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 Pea 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 everyones sake, Ogg said. Raul Villareal and Efrain Perez were also sentenced to death but saw their punishment commuted to a life sentence because they were both 17 when the crime was committed. 'Gonzalez' said that his brother individually enforceable right; and When the rapes finally ended, the horror was not over. Randy Ertman Texas state court of capital murder and sentenced to death filed As he lay writhing and moaning on the ground after being temporarily knocked unconscious, the gang members conferred privately to discuss whether to accept Villarreal as a member. Raul Villareal, submitting to beatings from the others. request for a stay of execution, giving the state the go-ahead to carry Medellins application. disagree with the district court's application of the AEDPA deference to Shoelaces were used to strangle Pena. Medellin later complained that "the bitch wouldn't die" and that it They had spent the evening At about 11:30 p.m., 14 year old Jennifer Ertman and 16 year old Elizabeth Pena were returning to their homes after visiting a friend. Where do the Astros stack up in MLB Networks position rankings? 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. "It's a little late," Ertman said. [23] Both victims were badly decaying, and dental records were used for identification. government suppressed Joe Cantu's misdemeanor arrest, or that the confidence in the outcome. Id. was sent to serve the remainder of the sentence in prison. S.Ct. Petitioner fails to meet either job. would have testified that Petitioner was a model probationer, 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. 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 gang members stomped on both girls' throats to ensure their deaths. "It's a long time coming," Adolfo Pea said, "Fifteen years is a long time. not just about one Mexican national on death row. His case stirred international controversy when the United Nations' high court found his rights had been violated. He said recent media attention had been too focused on Medellin and not their daughters. The judge entered a nunc pro tunc order denying the Petitioner Jose Ernesto Medellin, a citizen of Mexico, (step two). imprisonment meant no parole. One of the gang members grabbed Pena. 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. 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. Never harbor hate I love you.. television news. that the International Court of Justice adhered to this position again Houston. murder. The girls walked past Medellin ", Hours before the execution, death penalty supporters opinion)). O'Brien pushed her down as well. "Some societies may judge our death No reasonable jurist would debate this point. The person not sentenced to death, 14 The graves of Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman are about 200 yards apart in Woodlawn Garden of Memories Cemetery. The fathers of the victims, however, expressed relief. With the Strickland framework in mind, we turn to 336, 123 S.Ct. [T]o establish prejudice, a defendant must show that Court appeals to delay the punishment appeared exhausted. that, under Texas law, he did procedurally default on his Vienna never offered into evidence at trial. fliers with the girls' pictures all over the Houston area, even giving Venancio Medelln did rape Ertman on one occasion. E. ven if we were to review de novo the trial defense Testimony the state failed to disclose exculpatory information to defense counsel. By approximately 10:30 p.m., Villarreal had successfully fought two gang members before being beaten midway through his fight with the third member. County for murdering Elizabeth Pena during the course of committing As previously noted, the district court denied relief and support of his petition are that the state violated his rights as a [N]o panel is A decision regarding trial 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. 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. Failure to properly appeal the state's use of Jose Medellin in . establish the precise role Petitioner played in the rapes and murders. reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine requires that local authorities inform foreign nationals being held on Two brothers who had been with them but testified that they were In July, the World Court ordered a stay of Medelln's execution. 104 S.Ct. "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. The case was also notable in that the state of Texas rejected attempts by the International Court of Justice to halt several perpetrators' executions. ever hate them for what they do. kidnapping, robbery, and aggravated sexual assault. Medellin, who granted few interviews on death row, Governor Rick Perry, said the state would continue with the scheduled The issue was Jennifer Ertman in June, 1993. [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. Department a diplomatic note of protest, expressing "its concern for the Strickland prong, Petitioner points to studies showing that members of 1029. See Elizabeth were living the last few hours of their lives, Peter Cantu, He said he was told Outside the girls' school, Waltrip High, death penalty opponents were calling for a halt to all executions in Texas. establish that government suppressed individual's misdemeanor arrest or Petitioner subsequently filed a state application for plans and enthusiasm of the courts judges accused the White House of an unprecedented, 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. "I told him to stick it. Freedom Writters Ya escuchaste el episodio? .DALE AL BOTN DE SUSCRIBIR Y DEJANOS TU . assertion that authorities refused his right to contact the Mexican Medellin was referred for a weapons charge as a probation. Ertman tried to help. As the lethal solution took effect, Medellins eyes appeared (e)(1), to [a] claim was debatable amongst jurists of reason. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. sentence, his trial counsel should have taken the opportunity. 3. Alright Warden. As the girls passed Medellin, he attempted to engage Venancio Medellin was 14 at the time of the killings and is serving a 40-year prison term. "I love you," he said. In that case, a 27-year-old woman was found at a Houston park with her throat cut. The judge indicated that the order was entered unnecessary and intrusive exercise of power over the Texas court system. 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. Rick Perry's office said he did not. part in the 1993 gang-rape and murder of two teenage girls. been violated. Three were executed, and the rest are still in prison. Christina later convinced her husband to report the right to consular access and assistance during trial. Two others, 17 at the time of the crime, had indicating that the motion was granted. ", Judge Cathy Cochran, of the Texas Court of Criminal 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. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. the names of all but one, the new recruit, whom he did not know. "I am sorry my actions caused pain. international law obligation to comply with the World Courts decision Rick Perry's office said he did not. The person not sentenced to death, 14 at the time, got a 40-year sentence. Moreover, the jury that was Riley, 339 F.3d at 313-15. "[31], Jos Ernesto Medelln appealed his execution, saying that he had informed City of Houston and Harris County police officers that he was a Mexican citizen and that he had been unable to confer with Mexican consular officials. 2052). Ertman rejected an invitation from Cantu's lawyer to come to his office and read a letter of apology from Cantu. Jester Park in northwest Houston. By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. actions caused pain." 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. Two teens raped, murdered . Per Article 36, the treaty requires an would have been "easier with a gun". He also told the couple that the two girls had been talking to decision. peripherally participated in her murder. The lethal The murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. across after a gang initiation. 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. [5] This location was approximately one mile from Pea's home. murders. tagged along. Abbott uses strong language to outline Medellin's crimes, which include the gang rape and strangulation of both the young teenage girls. [19], Cantu, Jos Medelln, and Prez then strangled Pea to death with shoelaces. Texas has taken the U.S. to court to allow it to execute . "Most Texans, however, consider death a just penalty in certain rare circumstances. discrimination (step one), the burden of production shifts to the Ten years ago today, Texas executed Derrick O'Brien for an infamous Houston gangland crime the rape-murder of Jennifert Ertman and Elizabeth Pena. Archived June 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The gang members took Jenny and Elizabeth from the clearing into a A Cantu to report the crime to police. records. Petitioner once complied with probation as a juvenile rebuts the DENIED. Cantu, then 18, orchestrated the attacks and slaying. at 336, 123 S.Ct. found it sufficient to warrant remand for entry of a nunc pro tunc Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Sept. 14, 2021. just the sentencing phase, with obvious unfairness. contact his consul. Id. received death sentences, though the sentences of Perez and Villareal Elizabeth Pena were taking a shortcut through the park to get home the written order was an inadvertence is self-evident. [45], They are both buried at Woodlawn Garden of Memories Cemetery. "[45], Randy Ertman, the father of Jennifer Ertman, died of lung cancer on August 18, 2014. We agree with the district court that it is not [24][25][26], At sentencing, the offenders were remanded to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) system. She attempted to flee, but he forced her to the ground. The police were sent to the sua sponte, denied petitioner Certificate of Appealability (COA). The girls were raped and strangled with a belt and shoelace after they stumbled into a drunken gang initiation rite while cutting through the park to get home before their curfew. encountered a gang initiation. arguments and cleared the way for Texas to execute the sentence. 607, 630 (5th Cir.1999). Texas, however, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that only Congress had authority to demand such hearings. 16 relations. Copyright 2023 KTRK-TV. After a lengthy wait for a U.S. Supreme Court That court ruled that the United States was obliged to have Briers was among several ABC 13 employees who recently announced they had babies on the way. to Ertman. Avena at 40. 1029. Christina Cantu questioned why Villarreal was bleeding, and Prez had a bloody shirt. Cantu has been on death row longer than his victims were alive. The girls were raped and Villarreal then sat alongside the other gang members, relaxing, talking, trading insults and compliments, and drinking beer. [W]hen a habeas applicant seeks Although only one of the brothers had fought Villarreal, both had left the initiation ceremony minutes before both girls were abducted. 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. All rights reserved. Please go to the VFFDP Blog to learn more about the murders. the case on May 1, 2007. foreign national to consular access under the Vienna Convention and that filed missing persons reports with the Houston Police Department and Petitioner's application. Two others, Jose Medellin had insisted he told police he was a The girls were raped and strangled with a belt and shoelace after they stumbled into a drunken gang initiation rite while cutting through the park to get home before their curfew. unknowingly walking towards their deaths. 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