Overview
- On March 11, 2003, three young children were stabbed and decapitated in a Brownsville apartment and their father, John Allen Rubio, later surrendered to police.
- Rubio told police he preferred the children dead to being 'possessed' and his defense has argued he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia that made him believe the children were controlled by demons.
- Rubio was first convicted and sentenced to death in 2003, had that conviction overturned on appeal in 2007, and was retried and reconvicted in 2010 and again given a death sentence.
- His execution is scheduled for Thursday, November 12, 2026, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit after courts denied his most recent requests to block the sentence.
- The childrens' mother, Angela Camacho, pleaded guilty in 2005 and is serving three life terms with parole eligibility in 2043, and court records also allege Rubio forced her to have sex after the killings which and reports note the couple’s unstable living conditions before the crime.