Texas man who killed 3 children is put to death, hours after an Oklahoma execution

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing and beheading three young children in a squalid, windowless apartment in 2003 was executed Thursday evening, hours after Oklahoma put another man to death.

John Allen Rubio, 46, was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m. after a lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville. The killings of the baby girl and two toddlers so rocked the city of Brownsville on the U.S. border with Mexico that the apartment building was later demolished and the land turned into a park and community garden.

After a spiritual adviser prayed over him briefly, Rubio thanked friends and family for their “love and understanding” and said he was “not the same person I once was.” He thanked prison staff for teaching him how to find God and also expressed love for his common-law wife, Angela Camacho, who is serving life in prison for her role in the slayings.

“I want to say I’m sorry to my wife’s family,” he said. “I can’t change the past but I can tell you my life is going to be over. But that’s not going to make you happy.”

“I’m going to be with my kids in a…

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