What I remember most is Randy Ertman struggling with Houston cops behind the yellow crime scened tape; he was screaming "Does one of them have blonde hair?"... over and over.... and over.
She did.
Fourteen-year-old Jennifer Ertman (left) lay some distance away, close to her best friend, Elizabeth Pena, 16. In 1993, they had taken a shortcut home, trying make curfew, when they encountered six gang members. Each young girl was brutally and repeatedly raped and sodomized. They were beaten and strangled with belts and shoe laces.
Their bodies were discovered four days later.
One of the six, a subhuman, illegal alien Mexican named Raul Villareal would later brag that he stepped on Jennifer's neck during the gang frenzy of unthinkable violence to strangle her because the “bitch wouldn’t die.”
Villareal and four members of the "Black and White Gang", including Jose Medellin were convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed 14 years ago... longer than Jennifer was alive.
Efrain Perez and Raul Villarreal's sentences were commuted to life two years ago when the Supreme Court struck down capital punishment for anyone 17 or younger. Another does not have an execution date and the last... an American, Sean O'Brien, was executed last year.
Enter George Bush.
The twice-elected President of the United States and former governor of Texas, where he presided of the execution of 152 subhumans, has taken the Medellin's side on appealing his conviction.
In Medeilla v Texas, set for oral arguments before the Supreme Court tomorrow, argues that the convicted murder has a right to a new hearing because he wasn't told he could contact the Mexican consular office when he was arrested in the crimes.
Texas counters that Medellin failed to show in his original trial that his case had suffered because he did not confer with the Mexican consulate, and that his execution should proceed.
Essentially Bush argues that the state's case interferes with his conduct of international relations and that not adhere to the Vienna Convention could be detrimental to American citizens in legal trouble in other countries
It is likely Texas will lose the case and Jennifer's and Elizabeth's parents will be forced to go through a farce of a trial during which they will again suffer in unimaginable ways.
And I believe it's likely that Medellin's death sentence will be commuted at some point.
There are convicted murderers from 32 countries on death row in U.S. prisons; most countries are represented by a single killer; Mexico has 54 and El Salvador is a next with seven.
In the meantime the usual anti-capital punishment forces are rallying and Medellin has his own webpage, in which he complains "... I'm without TV and never will see it again. No TVs on this unit. They say its a luxury."
He conceeds that he's on death row "because I made an adolescent choice." Not a horrific, gang rape and murder of two helpless young girls, you see... just a poor choice by a kid.
He explains his early plan to "get my GED and go home to join the Mexican military, would have joined here, but I'm a Mexican, not a traitor :- ). But as I said, the world takes twists and turns when it gets ready to, no matter if you are ready for the move."
He would like to make friends through the mail... either male or female.
The girls' schoolmates at Waltrip High dedicated a small plaque in their memory
Jennifer's hair was blonde... Elizabeth's was a soft, dark brown.
I would have to say this kinda thing Is o hard todeal with. im glad its over.
i feel for the families who had to suffer through this whole thing.
One of those girls could have been me, or my sister. I would not be able to live with myself if something like this was to happen to her. I believe people who Commit Murders, i think there is something wrong in the brain with them. No regualr person goes and kills. ifthey wanted pussy that bad go get a Prostitute.
Posted by: sabrina | October 29, 2008 at 03:56 AM
These guys are evil and should be castrated. Because a couple of them are under 18, they have life sentences. Hopefully they get what they deserve in prison, if it's anything like the tv series OZ. I have no sympathy for what these scum did to these innocent girls.
Posted by: Chuck | August 06, 2008 at 12:16 PM
justice has prevailed and medellin has been dead almost an hour now. long live the death penalty for scum like this, with the nerve to complain about not having tv and wanting to join the military. don't you have to have integrity for that, you bleepin gang banger...
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Posted by: George | November 05, 2007 at 06:41 PM
Thanks, you just ruined my day. No TV??? That asshole should be dead. How can ANYONE, back his right to breath air. I feel ill.
Posted by: Oter | October 10, 2007 at 01:15 PM
Wow - there are so many aspects of this case that could be commented on... the difficult choices a President must make, the life-changing choices made by all the people involved (the girls and the sub-humans) made, to the way that, in America, we so often choose to protect the wrong people, at the expense of the innocent or deserving.
The girls paid a heavy price for a minor mistake. I think the boys were already firmly entrenched on their evil path... it was just a matter of who and how many their victims would be.
No punishment will undo what they did, or be "enough". But, still, I say give him a TV. Then play a Barney tape, on a continuous loop, 24/7, for the rest of his life.
Posted by: DontAskMe | October 10, 2007 at 09:59 AM