Killer Texas dad John Allen Rubio’s haunting final words before being executed by lethal injection
Warning: This article contains references which some readers may find distressing.
At 6:47pm local time last night (12 November), John Allen Rubio was executed at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville.
The 46-year-old was found guilty and sentenced to death in 2010 after he stabbed and beheaded three young children in 2003.
Before his execution, the Texas man thanked family and friends for their ‘love and understanding’ as he said he was ‘not the same person I once was’.
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Rubio also had haunting final words as he referenced being reunited with his victims in the afterlife.
In 2003, he fatally stabbed his infant daughter, Mary Jane Rubio, and two young step-children, Julissa Angela Quezada and John Esteban Rubio, in Brownsville, Texas.
The killer also expressed love for his common-law wife, Angela Camacho, who is serving life in prison for her role in the children’s deaths.
“I want to say I’m sorry to my wife’s family,” he said before his execution, after a spiritual adviser had briefly prayed over him.
“I can’t change the past but I can tell you my life is going to be over. But that’s not going to make you happy.”
Rubio had also thanked staff at the prison for teaching him to find God and then went on to add a haunting reference to his victims.
“I’m going to be with my kids in a little bit,” Rubio said. “I’m ready to go to heaven to be with my lord and saviour.”
After the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began to take effect, the Associated Press reports that the killer took three breaths and began what sounded like snoring.
He then lay motionless and 21 minutes after the injection began, a physician pronounced Rubio dead.
In their windowless apartment back in 2003, he and Camacho stabbed and beheaded the three young children.
Defence experts claimed Rubio had schizophrenia and he claimed he killed his kids because he believed they were demonically possessed. While the two eldest children were not biologically his, it’s reported he treated them as if they were his own.
Prosecutors claimed he forced Camacho to have sex with him after the killings.
Rubio beat his initial 2003 conviction but a second trial in 2010 found him guilty and he received the death sentence.
Camacho pleaded guilty to her role in the killings of the young children.
Topics: True Crime, US News, Death Row
Jess Battison
