Executions in Oklahoma and Texas Include a Father Who Beheaded 3 Children
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected his latest stay request after a judge found him competent for execution.
- Texas death row inmate John Allen Rubio is scheduled for execution via lethal injection Thursday at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit for the 2003 murders of his three young children.
- Rubio and his common-law wife, Angela Camacho, killed their three children in 2003 while claiming they were 'possessed by evil spirits,' according to court filings.
- Defense attorneys filed multiple motions alleging insanity, citing Rubio's history of hallucinations, though mental health experts presented conflicting evidence regarding his diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
- Camacho pleaded guilty to three counts of capital murder in 2005 and is currently serving three consecutive life sentences for her role in the killings.
- During a recent court hearing, the children's aunt confronted Rubio in court, stating, 'We have to remember how he brutally killed them,' as execution approaches.
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Executions in Oklahoma and Texas include a father who beheaded 3 children
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Two men were set to be executed in the U.S. on Thursday, including a Texas father who beheaded three young children he was raising in a 2003 killing that rattled a community along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Texas Father Who Beheaded 3 Children Faces Execution
John Allen Rubio is scheduled to die by lethal injection this week for stabbing and decapitating his three young children in 2003 after claiming they were possessed by evil spirits. More than two decades after the killings, the 45-year-old faces execution Thursday at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit. The New York Post […]
A Father’s Delusion, A Living Nightmare: Texas Prepares To Execute Man Who Beheaded His 3 Children
In the spring of 2003, inside a dimly lit apartment near the Mexican border, a father convinced himself that the devil lived under his roof. What followed remains one of the darkest chapters in Texas criminal history. On Thursday, after twenty-one years of appeals, overturned verdicts, and solitary confinement on death row, John Allen Rubio […] A Father’s Delusion, A Living Nightmare: Texas Prepares To Execute Man Who Beheaded His 3 Children
Evil dad who decapitated 3 young children finally set to executed
A Texas dad who stabbed and decapitated his three young children more than 20 years ago — blaming it on them being “possessed by evil spirits” — is finally set to be executed this week. John Allen Rubio, 45, is set to die by lethal injection in Texas on Thursday for the 2003 murder of...
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