Peter Cantu was convicted in the 1993rapes and murders of 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and14-year-old Jennifer Ertman. A total of six men have been convicted, and two of them have already been executed.

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, is set to be executed on ...

O'Brien was condemned to death for the 1993 rapes and murders of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Peña, 16. Both girls were Waltrip High School sophomores.

Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, were attacked by six gang members as they took a shortcut home from a party, trying to make their 11:30 p.m. curfew.

Peter Cantu was condemned for the murders of 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman. The girls were gang raped, beaten and strangled in an attack in Houston in 1993. Evidence ...

Jennifer Ertman and her friend Elizabeth Pena were savagely gang-raped and murdered in an hour-long horror that unfolded one night in a northwest Houston park.The 1993 crime stunned the city.

Authorities later linked him and O'Brien to a killing six months before the attack on Ertman and Pena. In that case, a 27-year-old woman was found at a Houston park with her throat cut.

It's a project that's been 20 years in the making, a signature bridge to commemorate the lives of teenagers Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman.

The ruling marked the third time that an execution has been scheduled — then postponed — in connection with the June 24, 1993, slayings of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Peña, 16, as the ...