EDINBURG, Texas -- A jury has sentenced a south Texas man to death after convicting him of beheading his common law wife’s three children in 2003.
Prosecutors had sought a death sentence for John Allen Rubio, who killed three children under the age of four in a windowless Brownsville apartment in 2003.
The Hidalgo County jury deliberated for four hours before choosing the death sentence on Thursday.
Now, Rubio will be placed in the general population of a prison for the first time since the crimes. He spent several years isolated on death row after his original conviction and death sentence in 2003. A state appeals court overturned the conviction in 2007.
