Texas executes killer dad 23 years after horrific child slayings — as he claimed that God forgave him

Texas executed John Allen Rubio by lethal injection, ending a case that began with the 2003 killings of his three young children in Brownsville. The execution drew attention to Rubio’s claims of religious forgiveness and his statement that he was no longer the same person, while the children’s mother remains imprisoned for her role.

Rubio, 46, was pronounced dead in Huntsville at 7.08 pm on Thursday, 21 minutes after the injection began. He and Angela Camacho were convicted over the deaths of 3-year-old Julissa, 14-month-old John and 2-month-old Mary Jane; Rubio was sentenced to death after a second trial in 2010, and Camacho received life in prison. His first conviction was overturned on appeal in 2007, and defence experts cited schizophrenia and a traumatic childhood.