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Texas Executes Killer Who Beheaded 3 Children
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Key Points:
- John Allen Rubio, convicted of fatally stabbing and beheading three young children in Brownsville, Texas in 2003, was executed by lethal injection at Huntsville state prison.
- The victims were a 3-year-old girl, a 14-month-old boy, and a 2-month-old infant, all killed in a squalid, windowless apartment that was later demolished and replaced with a park and community garden.
- Rubio and his girlfriend Angela Camacho were both implicated in the murders; Camacho pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence, while Rubio claimed the children were possessed and that he was "the chosen one."
- Rubio's execution was the 37th in the US this year, continuing a trend with the country on track to exceed 40 executions for the second consecutive year, with Florida leading in numbers.
