Texas Man Who Killed Three Young Children: Clemency Denied, Execution Set for November 12 at Huntsville
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously denied clemency on November 10 to death-row inmate John Allen Rubio, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on November 12 at the Huntsville Unit.
On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas, Rubio killed the three children he shared with his common-law wife, Angela Camacho: Julissa, aged 3; John Esteban, 14 months; and Mary Jane, 2 months. He had told Camacho that he believed the children were possessed by evil spirits, including the spirit of his deceased grandmother. Camacho pleaded guilty in 2005 and received three life sentences.
Rubio was first sentenced to death in November 2003, but the conviction was overturned in 2007. At his 2010 retrial he was again convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the sentence in 2012. In October this year the court denied his motion to stop the execution. His attorneys also alleged in late October that prosecutors had relied on false testimony from a forensic psychiatrist concerning his medication and symptoms of psychosis; the claim did not change the execution schedule. Across his trials, the defense presented experts who said Rubio suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and delusions, and juries rejected his insanity defense.
Source: Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
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Photo: 美国德克萨斯州Huntsville监狱（资料图，该州死刑在此执行）。图：Nick DiFonzo，CC BY 2.0，经维基共享资源 / The Huntsville Unit in Texas (file photo; state executions are carried out there). Photo by Nick DiFonzo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
