Texas puts to death man who beheaded three children, hours after Oklahoma execution

1. The Guardian US FIRST 30m ago Texas puts to death man who beheaded three children, hours after Oklahoma execution

   Oklahoma man, 73, executed for killing ex’s estranged husband, as US nears 40 executions for second straight year A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing and beheading his three young children in a squalid, windowless apartment in 2003 was recently executed. John Allen Rubio, 46, was pronounced dead at 6.47 pm on Thursday after a lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas. His killings of his baby girl and two toddlers so rocked the city of Brownsville on the US border with Mexi

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