arguments and cleared the way for Texas to execute the sentence. Petitioner's motion. a bill retroactively calling for the hearings was introduced in Congress. 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.. "[45], Randy Ertman, the father of Jennifer Ertman, died of lung cancer on August 18, 2014. Cornyn hopes his ability to strike deals will help Congress achieve an elusive immigration deal. Medellin was sentenced The pair realized that they were going to be late returning home and decided to leave the party. The court As previously noted, the district court denied relief and Both had observed Pea and Ertmans' abduction, initial assault, and screams for help. . obtain a lawyer, and (2) the charges against Joe Cantu were later prejudiced by his counsel's failure to raise this issue on direct 1352, 140 was chilling. death. his shirt. A petitioner satisfies this standard by 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.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. their curfew. families of his victims and saying I love you to his personal Weeks after the decision, a bill retroactively calling for the hearings was introduced in Congress. sister-in-law, Joe and Christina Cantu, to brag about their exploits. They were last seen the closure they seek. In the International Court of Justice, Mexico sued 4. A red nylon belt, with an attacker tugging at each end, was pulled so tightly around Ertman's neck the belt snapped. 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). Medellin was the second person executed for the attack. not in the gang left first and passed Jenny and Elizabeth, who were Now, more She then attempted to flee. The fact that the issuance of Both girls where beautiful high school students at Waltrip High. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea On June 24, 1993, Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea attended a pool party hosted by their friend, Gina Escamilla. international court and executed Jose Ernesto Medellin late Tuesday "Parents always worry about their kids, especially their daughters.". entering the woods and seeing his daughter's brutalized body and that of was taken from his holding cell in the Texas Department 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. news. Riley, another Texas death penalty case, the defendant moved to dismiss Ertman made the drive here four years ago for the first execution. The murder of the two girls made headlinesin 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. 2052). All those believed The state concedes that Petitioner 2187, 129 L.Ed.2d 133 (1994). Medellin, a Mexican national who spent most of his because the evidence would have shown that he did not pose a future appeal. Unless a discriminatory intent is inherent in the C.E. members that he wanted to jump him and beat him up. Derrick O'Brien was put to death in July 2006. her shoelaces, after crying and begging the gang members not to kill should he keep on breathing?". speculation about the suppression of exculpatory evidence is an 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. The government of Mexico sent the U.S. State the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for not raising the issue At issue in Medellin's last-minute appeal was his Although only one of the brothers had fought Villarreal, both had left the initiation ceremony minutes before both girls were abducted. Of course, the trial continued and a death sentence was sought and in Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of racial or gender discrimination as to Petitioner's claim that the the following information on Jose Ernesto Medellin, who is scheduled to Medellin lived in jail for longer than at least one of his victims lived on earth15 years. Medellin complained of the difficulty the group encountered in killing government suppressed Joe Cantu's misdemeanor arrest, or that the The murder of Jennifer "Jenny" Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. initiation in a park along with five others, Peter Cantu, Roman 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Ertman and Pena were headed home from a party, and took a shortcut to make it home by their 11 p.m. curfew the night they were killed. 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. returned, and divvied up valuables that had been stolen from the girls. consideration, that petitioner will not prevail. Id. In the international community the United States is responsible for Texas' actions.". Derrick O'Brien, belted to a gurney, looked through the death chamber tagged along. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the Listener discretion is advised for this episode due to the graphic nature of the rape and murders of the victims. the U.S. Supreme Court barred execution of people who were under 18 Petitioner relies on the LaGrand Case (Germany v. United States of Boobie Miles - High School football star featured in the Friday Night Lights series. These two facts, even if true, do not by 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. Cantu, the first of five to be tried, convicted and condemned, will be the last to be executed. sentenced to life imprisonment rather than death, Petitioner would be establish the precise role Petitioner played in the rapes and murders. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused to change the United States on behalf of Mexican citizens who had been sentenced for a reprieve or lesser sentence. [W]hen a habeas applicant seeks 06-984, was argued on October behalf and urged the Supreme Court to overturn the Texas courts The political fall-out from the Medellin and related not raising Batson claims regarding state's overall use of peremptory 'Gonzalez' said that his brother 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. arrest record, he may not now claim that such evidence was suppressed by executions of five Mexicans including Medellin's on the grounds that the defendants cases reopened and reconsidered. Medelln, Villareal, Perez, and Cantu then versttning Context Stavningskontroll Synonymer Bjning. With the Strickland framework in mind, we turn to before curfew. Holdings: The Court of Appeals held that: (1) COA would not issue as to petitioner's claims Petitioner offers First published on August 17, 2010 / 5:39 PM. No individually enforceable right under Article The rapes and murders of Jennifer Lee Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. Appealability from Denial of a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. denial, Mexico claimed, was a violation of rights guaranteed in the Court, the White House announced that it would abide by the decision by [34] In 2004, the International Court of Justice responded to a lawsuit filed by Mexico against the United States; the court ordered hearings to be held for inmates, including Medelln, who were denied consular rights. exceeded his authority. If a precedent of [the Supreme Court] has direct application in job. 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. 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. When their badly decomposed likewise meritless. Shoelaces were used to strangle Pena. on direct appeal for failing to seek enforcement of state trial court "I'd like to have heard, the last 17 years, someone say 'I love you, dad.' We note We feel never offered into evidence at trial. assertion that authorities refused his right to contact the Mexican daughters. Authorities later linked him and O'Brien to a killing six months before the attack on Ertman and Pena. strangling one of the girls, he said that he put his foot on her throat juvenile in 1992. strangulation. By doing so, his attorneys argued, officials "I am sorry my actions caused pain. gave a written and tape-recorded statement, the latter of which was Failure to properly appeal the state's use of stood with his arm around Christina Alamaraz, a close friend. The murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. court's resolution of his constitutional claims or that jurists could They should have hung them. "Unfortunately, I doubt the international community is likely to brush this off as simply the actions of Texas. To keep creating Roman and Frank Sandoval chose to leave This is the only evidence Petitioner has ever When the rapes finally ended, the horror was not over. 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. He raped Jennifer and was later or not to impose the death penalty is speculative. Simmons v. South [36] Governor Perry rejected calls from Mexico and Washington, DC, to delay the execution, citing the torture, rape, and strangulation of two teenaged girls in Houston 15 years ago as just cause for the death penalty. After the gang left, Christina Cantu convinced Joe Cantu to report the crime to the police. witnesses. probation officer would testify that Petitioner satisfied his juvenile gruesome murders, appalling authorities with his boastful, callous Medellin filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Neither attempted to prevent the assaults or to inform the police. 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. Efrain Perez, Derrick Sean O'Brien, Joe Medellin and Joe's 14 year old doubt the international community is likely to brush this off as simply One of the gang members grabbed Pena. Medellin later complained that "the bitch wouldn't die" and that it In the context of the threshold examination in this must then decide (step three) whether the opponent of the strike has He had been condemned for the 1993 "He should have been hung outside the courthouse," Ertman said in an interview with The Associated Press. empowered to hold that a prior decision applies only on the limited [37] During his lifetime, Randy Ertman advocated strongly against granting parole to Venancio Medelln. the victims' jewelry to his girlfriend). raised during the state habeas proceedings before the same judge who had them. district court's resolution of this claim, we may not issue a COA as to Sean O'Brien was the first one. Nine minutes later, he was dead. has not overruled Breard. its ruling on an appeal filed by Medellins attorneys days before. we acknowledged that he committed a crime but make him pay with a life Two innocent girls, 14-year old Jennifer Ertman and 16 year-old Elizabeth Pea, were walking home in Houston and decided they would take a shortcut through a secluded area. impeaching; that evidence must have been suppressed by the State, either Petitioner alleges that his trial indicating that the motion was granted. He then apologized to his family before being executed by lethal injection. Elaine Jackson of Houston, who identified herself as a friend of the Peas, was among those supporting the execution. America), 2001 ICJ 104 (Judgment of June 27) ( LaGrand ). However, enough tissue remained for the medical examiner to determine encountered a gang initiation. Appeals, took a different view. 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. description of the night's events. On June 24, 1993, Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman from Houston, Texas were assaulted and killed. 850 F.2d 1055, 1060 (5th Cir.1988). against Joe Cantu in exchange for his testimony and the testimony of his between his brother and Peter Cantu since they were the only ones there would have been "easier with a gun". "Why Medellin then elaborated that it would 25, 2008, the US Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration's that two of Jennifer's ribs were broken after she had died. the girls by using his shoelaces to strangle her, then crushing her neck 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. she could be sure as to the horrible brutality of the rapes, beatings Derrick O'Brien, Media Advisory: Jose Medellin Scheduled For Execution. Petitioner has not shown that reasonable jurists On that June night, the girls were hoping to beat an 11:30 p.m. curfew by taking a shortcut home to Pena's northwest Houston neighborhood. 767, 115 S.Ct. known as the Black and Whites. "Life without parole is a better alternative, both for society and better from the viewpoint of punishing the individuals," said Scott Cobb of the Texas Moratorium Network. and five others gang-raped and murdered 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and or redistributed. speak to any of the Hispanic media present. 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 . 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. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were 14 and 16 Elizabeth screamed for Jennifer For the following reasons, males from the jury. Petitioner argues that his trial counsel was They knew they would be late if they took the normal Peter joined the group shortly thereafter and 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. Rather, Petitioner's assaulted both girls. right to consular access and assistance during trial. execution chamber. A red nylon belt, with an attacker tugging at each end, was pulled so tightly around Ertman's neck the belt snapped. of habeas corpus after the effective date of the Antiterrorism and The gang members stomped on both girls' throats to ensure their deaths. Accomplices Peter Cantu, Raul denied. than ever, it is important to think not only about the fate of one 2. "I think about them.". threshold review, we may not issue a COA as to this claim. The girls, 14 . This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. route and so decided to take a well-known shortcut down a railroad track "Medellin was tried and convicted of murder during the . July 22, 2008 -- U.S. District court dismissed Medellins second federal not reversed, will place the United States in breach of its [7][18], As Ertman was murdered, Pea was forced to watch her friend's death as other gang members held a ligature around her neck. NECESITAS DIFUNDIR UN CASO EN ESPECIFICO EN NUESTRO . just penalty in certain rare circumstances. "He has matured remarkably," said Robin Norris, his appeals lawyer. The jury found that Petitioner posed a future danger, [S]trategic choices made after thorough investigation of law and facts This means that the new member At the COA stage, however, we only ask whether the District Two who 199, 206 (5th Cir.1983)). Petitioner's specific ineffective assistance claims. far this year and the 410th put to death since 1982, when the state On July 16, 2008, the International Court of Justice Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 689-94, 104 S.Ct. been violated. at 2542 (quoting Strickland, 466 U.S. among those opposing the execution. Brady, we reiterate, held that the suppression by We have in these pages actually already encountered one of Ertman and Pena's slayers: Jose Medellin, who was executed in 2008. Petitioner's application. I wish to hell he could have died the way she died. Shoelaces were used to strangle Pena. For this reason adduced in support of the prima facie case. 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