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Texas man convicted in beheading of 3 children is put to death, hours after an Oklahoma execution

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Source: Jacksonville Daily Progress

A Texas man convicted of stabbing and beheading three children he helped raise has been put to death, hours after an execution in Oklahoma. John Allen Rubio received a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state prison in Huntsville. In…

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