Execution Set for Texas Man in Murder of 3 Young Children

John Rubio, 46, is scheduled to be executed in Huntsville, Texas, on Thursday evening for the 2003 killings of three young children. Rubio was convicted of stabbing and beheading his two children and his common-law wife’s daughter. His conviction was overturned in 2007, but a second jury found him guilty in 2010. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied his latest appeal on Nov. 5, and a separate lawsuit challenging the state’s lethal-injection drug supply failed.