A Texas man convicted of stabbing to death and decapitating three young children in a squalid, windowless apartment in 2003 was executed Thursday, hours after Oklahoma put another man to death. John Allen Rubio, 46, was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m. after receiving an injection at Huntsville State Prison, the AP reports. The murders of the little girl and two young children so shook the town of Brownsville, on the US border with Mexico, that the building was later demolished and the land transformed into a community park and garden.
Rubio and his girlfriend, Angela Camacho, were accused of killing Julissa Quesada, 3, John E. Rubio, 14 months, and Mary Jane Rubio, 2 months, in the apartment they shared in Brownsville. Camacho pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence. At various points during the case, Rubio claimed that the children were possessed and that he was the “chosen one” destined to save the world. Thursday’s executions were the 36th and 37th this year, with the United States on track to exceed 40 executions for the second year in a row – a pace paced by Florida.
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