Associated Press, via the Houston Chronicle, USA
June 30, 2005
www.chron.com

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ReligionNewsBlog.com • Item 11541 • Posted: Friday July 1, 2005  

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BROWNSVILLE — A woman pleaded guilty to three counts of capital murder today in the decapitation deaths of her three young children, getting three concurrent life prison sentences instead of the death penalty.

Angela Camacho, 25, will be eligible for parole in 40 years. Her attorneys failed to prove she was mentally retarded and therefore ineligible for the death penalty, but the plea agreement spared her. Had she been convicted and sentenced to death, she would have become the first Mexican national female on Texas’ death row.

Camacho and 24-year-old John Allen Rubio, her common-law husband, were accused of strangling and decapitating her two daughters, 3-year-old Julissa Quezada and 2-month-old Mary Jane Rubio, in 2003. The couple allegedly washed themselves afterward and had sex before decapitating their 1-year-old son, John Esthefan Rubio.

A relative called police, who found the girls stuffed in a trash bag and the boy on a bed. Rubio and Camacho told police they thought the children were possessed.

Camacho answered state District Judge Benjamin Euresti’s questions in Spanish as he accepted her guilty plea.

“I hope that God will touch your heart and that you ask for forgiveness,” Euresti said. “Good luck to you.”

Alberto Pullen, one of Camacho’s attorneys, said she would face deportation if released from prison. He said she wants to stay in the U.S.

Rubio was convicted and sentenced to death in 2003 after he requested the death penalty. Rubio has since decided to fight the sentence. In February, he was found competent to choose his attorney for the appeal.

According to evidence during Rubio’s trial, he had inhaled so much spray paint that he had damaged his brain and might have been psychotic.

Camacho’s case was tied up for more than two years due to issues of her mental health.

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