Texas man executed for beheading 3 children: 'Going to be with my kids'
John Allen Rubio thanked loved ones and said he would soon be with the three children he killed before receiving a lethal injection in Texas.
TL;DR
- John Allen Rubio was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, on Thursday evening.
- He was convicted of murdering three children—Julissa Quezada (3), John Esteban Rubio (1), and Mary Jane Rubio (2 months old)—in 2003.
- Rubio's defense team cited a troubled childhood and a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, but prosecution experts disputed these findings.
- His common-law wife, Angela Camacho, pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence.
- Rubio's execution was the second scheduled in the U.S. for Thursday, with another man, James Pavatt, executed in Oklahoma for plotting a murder.