(May 5, 2008)—An Aug. 5 execution date was set Monday for a Mexican-born Texas death row inmate whose sentence set off an international dispute that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffing the White House.
A state district judge in Houston on set the lethal injection date for 33-year-old Jose Medellin for his role in the rape-slayings of two teenage girls 15 years ago.
In March, the U.S. Supreme Court voted against hearing the case of Medellin, saying President Bush overstepped his authority by trying to order Texas to reopen his case and the cases of 50 others born in Mexico and condemned for murders in the U.S.