Nearly 23 years after the brutal slayings, John Allen Rubio, 46, was executed by lethal injection in Texas for the horrific murders of three young children he helped raise. Rubio was convicted of stabbing and beheading his children, 3-year-old Julissa Quezada, 1-year-old John Esteban Rubio, and 2-month-old Mary Jane Rubio, in a crime that shocked the community. Pronounced dead 21 minutes after the procedure began, Rubio’s final words expressed a chilling acceptance of his fate, stating, “I’m going to be with my kids in a little bit,” and “I’m ready to go to heaven to be with my lord and savior.” The grisly murders occurred on March 11, 2003, in a Brownsville apartment, where Rubio, who claimed the children were possessed and that he was the “chosen one,” carried out the act alongside his common-law wife, Angela Camacho, who is serving a life sentence. Despite a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and defense claims of paranoid schizophrenia and a troubled past, Rubio was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to death, bringing a grim closure to a case that began with the unthinkable violence against innocent children.
Adapted from: U.S. News Today on Fox News
