HALLELUJAH, JUSTICE HAS FINALLY BEEN SERVED !

After 15 years, justice has finally been served. Mexican citizen Jose Medellin, 33, was put to death last night for the brutal murders and rapes of two teenaged girls. The execution was delayed four hours while the U.S. Supreme Court considered yet another appeal, one of several it has heard since his conviction in 1993.

The government of Mexico, which took Medellin' case and that of other condemned Mexican nationals to the U.N.'s International Court of Justice (World Court), won a ruling from that court which ordered the U.S., and in Medellin's case, the State of Texas to stop the executions pending a review of their cases. Mexico claimed their condemned nationals had not been afforded the assistance of the Mexican consulate as required by the 1963 treaty known as the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, a treaty that the U.S. signed together with more than 170 other countries.

The Mexican government condemned Medellin's execution. The Foreign Ministry released a statement saying, "The Mexican government will continue insisting on the obligation of the United States to provide the review and reconsideration of the death sentence of other Mexican nationals." The ministry emphasized that Medellin's execution was a "clear" defiance of last month's World Court ruling and a violation of international law.

So protested the government of a lawless nation where countless of its citizens are murdered and raped by their fellow Mexicans every year. Come to think of it, Jose Medellin would have been a perfect fit for Mexico's crime ridden society.

For all those weeping willows and bleeding hearts who are bemoaning Medellin's death, here is a quick history lesson. Elizabeth Pena, 16, and Jennifer Ertman, 14, took a shortcut home from a party when their paths crossed six drunken hoodlums celebrating a gang initiation inside a park. The girls were grabbed, thrown to the ground, gang raped and sodomized for an hour, and then strangled. Medellin later bragged to friends that they had raped a couple of virgins and that after stangling them, stomped on their throats "to make sure they were really dead."

And what has happened to Jose Medellin's five cohorts for participating in this heinous crime? Derrick O'Brien was executed in 2006. Peter Cantu was also sentenced to death, but an execution date has yet to be set. Efrain Perez and Raul Villarreal are serving life sentences after having had their death sentences commuted because they were juveniles at the time of the crime. Venacio Medellin, Jose's younger brother, is serving a 40-year sentence.

As for all the alarmists who fear that other countries will now retaliate by denying American citizens arrested abroad their right to obtain U.S. consular assistance, I say, baloney! That is a scare tactic which is nothing more than a red herring. To all those who called for Texas to stop Medellin's execution - including the World Court, Mexico, President Bush, Condoleezza Rice and newspapers like the Houston Chronicle and the New York Times - I say, Hallelujah, justice has finally been served!