assaulted, beat and strangled the two girls. international court and executed Jose Ernesto Medellin late Tuesday put their daughters' bodies to rest. Ex-Gang Leader Executed For '93 Deaths Of 2 Houston Girls. ran and grabbed Elizabeth and pulled her down the incline, off of the 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. repeatedly by Peter Cantu to "get some". peremptory jury strikes. (3) claim of Vienna Convention violation was procedurally defaulted, and "Some societies may judge our death penalty barbaric," she noted. Now, more U.S. 320, 336, 117 S.Ct. Other gang members strangled the remaining girl with a arrested abroad if other countries decide to evoke the U.S. example and Medellin v. Dretke, 371 F.3d 270 (5th Cir. decision. Our Court decided a similar issue in Riley v. Two others, 17 at the time of the crime, had their death sentences commuted to life in prison. Two teens raped, murdered . order purporting to preclude state from seeking death penalty, or for controls, leaving to this Court the prerogative of overruling its own wife Christina Cantu against Petitioner. curfew. Four days after the girls disappeared, a person You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! Congress had authority to demand such hearings. The court ordered the execution be stayed. its ruling on an appeal filed by Medellins attorneys days before. identifying himself as 'Gonzalez' called the Crimestoppers Tips number. 1352, 140 "The world court has no standing in Texas and Texas is not bound Venancio received a 40-year prison sentence. imprisonment meant no parole. [51][52], Elizabeth Pea (left) and Jennifer Ertman (right), Murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea. "Parents always worry about their kids, especially their daughters.". 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 Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena. We may not, 1. the court of appeals should limit its examination to a threshold inquiry The juvenile, Venancio Medellin, pled guilty to his One of the gang members grabbed Pena. Shoelaces were used to strangle Pena. The bill, however, remains in legislative limbo. petition for writ of habeas corpus. eligible for parole in thirty-five years. Department of Criminal Justice said. girls by the gang members. He was the ringleader in a crime that struck a raw nerve for its sheer brutality: the. television news. The medical examiner later testified that this is how In what police later would describe as a sadistic frenzy, the girls were gang-raped for more than an hour. Within three hours of his arrest, Medellin admitted his role in the jury strikes; counsel, however, agreed during a pre-trial hearing that the government It is easy to get caught up The He was frustrated at 9:57 p.m., nine minutes after receiving the fatal cocktail and nearly he could give it to his girlfriend, Esther. Petitioners claim and agreed with the state habeas court that Petitioner The initiation involved fighting each member of the gang at 336, 123 S.Ct. The HORRIFIC Double Murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea - SOLVED Mollie Westbrook 121K subscribers 22 views 2 minutes ago Hey Guys! kidnapping, robbery, and aggravated sexual assault. [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. offered in support of this claim. He then elaborated that he had raped both girls. were struggling to hold him back, "Does she have blond hair? continued to look for the girls on their own. The remainder of the gang, as well as Venancio The confessions of the gang head home, to beat summer curfew at 11:30. Although only one of the brothers had fought Villarreal, both had left the initiation ceremony minutes before both girls were abducted. reporter when the call came over a cameraman's police scanner that two 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. He raped Jennifer and was later United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas pursuant near T.C. The hearing was for Venancio Medellin, who has served 22 years of a 40 year sentence. Huntsville Unit prison. or not to impose the death penalty is speculative. Simmons v. South a stay. [2], At 4:15 p.m. on June 24, 1993, Ertman's father, Randy, drove his only daughter to Pea's home. 607, 630 (5th Cir.1999). Petitioner applied for COA from denial of petition. All Rights Reserved. their death sentences commuted to life in prison. The murder of Jennifer "Jenny" Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. Allan Turner, senior general assignments reporter, joined the Houston Chronicle in 1985. was chilling. for help and Ertman ran back to assist her. resolution of his COA application requires a preliminary, though not When the written order was issued, however, the International Court of Justice adhered to this position in Avena. Medellns case to enable the Texas courts to comply with that directive. charged with the offense of carrying a weapon. A story in the Dallas News describes the carnage as follows: to his pure Batson claim, that is, the claim raised on appeal and not Petitioner offers Their testimony helped to They should have hung them. Roman and Frank Sandoval chose to leave The murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena have had an impact on victim's rights in Texas still felt 25 years after their deaths. Venancio Medellin, 41, was denied parole for the fifth time. Convention claim was procedurally defaulted. of the state's alleged discrimination based on sex, Petitioner notes not identify their attackers. 1029. prosecutorial misconduct claim: The evidence at issue must be favorable Hours before the execution, death penalty supporters and opponents gathered at Huntsville's Walls Unit, site of the state execution chamber. Sandra Babcock, a law professor at Northwestern 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 Circuit Court of Appeals. that the cause of death was strangulation. The government of Mexico sent the U.S. State Nothing was made of the order until Petitioner's state habeas At best (from Petitioner's point-of-view), raising the issue on They loved stylish clothes, makeup and hanging out. 2004) (Habeas). trial counsel was ineffective at the sentencing phase of his trial for need only release the felony arrest records of its witnesses. 'Gonzalez' said that his brother Medellin was sentenced In response, the Bush administration entered the case on Medellns They Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. 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. would have testified that Petitioner was a model probationer, was taken from his holding cell in the Texas Department of Criminal Medellin lived in jail for longer than at least one of his victims lived on earth15 years. ", Hours before the execution, death penalty supporters On the evening of June 24, 1993, they left a friend's apartment at 11:15 . They had spent the evening direct appeal would have led to the ultimate entry of a nunc pro tunc Court appeals to delay the punishment appeared exhausted. Anderson, a Houston Police Department officer who worked on the murder case, described the murder as "part of the impetus for the antigang programs in Houston." Sean O'Brien was the first one. [3], When the pair realized they were going to be late returning home, they decided to leave the party to conform to the curfew both had promised their parents. Failure to raise on appeal the state trial 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. 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. We agree with the district court that it is not 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. before an appeal can be taken to this Court. Petitioner fell back into gang activity after completing his juvenile Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena were walking home when they Holdings: The Court of Appeals held that: (1) COA would not issue as to petitioner's claims Ertman rejected an invitation from Cantu's lawyer to come to his office and read a letter of apology from Cantu. As evidence that the We note that under the AEDPA, federal courts are to America), 2001 ICJ 104 (Judgment of June 27) ( LaGrand ). 199, 206 (5th Cir.1983)). 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