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Killer to die for butchering children
A Hidalgo County jury Thursday sentenced a Brownsville man to die for killing and beheading three young children he was raising with their mother.
John Allen Rubio, 29, kept his head down as state District Judge Noé González read the jury’s decision that Rubio remained a threat to society, intended to kill the children and showed no mitigating virtues that should spare him from death row.
[...]The jury found Rubio, 29, guilty of capital murder Monday, then heard several days of penalty phase testimony before starting deliberations on his punishment. It took the panel about three hours to reach a decision.
González formally sentenced him to death by injection.
“If you want forgiveness, you’re going to have to get it from a much higher source,” he told Rubio.
González added that he’d sentenced more defendants to death than any judge in South Texas, but “had never seen a crime like this.”
“I can’t imagine anyone murdering their own children,” he said. “I can’t imagine anyone hurting children that age.”
Julissa Quesada, 3; John E. Rubio, 14 months; and Rubio’s biological daughter Mary Jane Rubio, 2 months, were killed March 11, 2003, by Rubio and the children’s mother, Angela Camacho.
The couple told police they thought the children were possessed and butchered them in an attempt to rid the demons.
Camacho, 30, is serving three life sentences.
The alternative to death row would have been a life sentence, where Rubio would have become eligible for parole after 40 years, seven of which he’s already served after a 2003 conviction in the case. That conviction was overturned on a prosecutorial error.
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