Texas Carries Out Its Seventh Execution of 2026: John Allen Rubio Put to Death for Murdering Three Young Children
The Associated Press reported that John Allen Rubio, 46, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas, on the evening of November 12 and was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m. He was sentenced to death for the 2003 murders of three young children in a Brownsville apartment: Julissa Quesada, 3, John E. Rubio, 14 months, and Mary Jane Rubio, 2 months, all of whom were stabbed and beheaded.
Before the execution, Rubio thanked his friends and family, said he was no longer the same person, apologised to his wife's family, and said, "Soon I will be with my children" and "I am ready to go to heaven." A doctor pronounced him dead about 21 minutes after the injection began.
Rubio's partner, Angela Camacho, is serving a life sentence for her part in the murders. Rubio's first death sentence was overturned on appeal; a second trial in 2010 again sentenced him to death, and his insanity defence was rejected. The apartment building where the killings took place was later demolished, and the site became a park and community garden.
Rubio was the seventh person executed in Texas in 2026. Oklahoma executed James Pavatt, 73, the same day, bringing the total number of executions in the United States in 2026 to 37.
(Source: Associated Press)
Source: Associated Press
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