德州一男子杀害三名幼童案：赦免申请被拒 定于11月12日在Huntsville执行死刑
美国德克萨斯州赦免与假释委员会11月10日一致拒绝了死刑犯 John Allen Rubio 的赦免申请，他定于11月12日在 Huntsville 监狱以注射方式被执行死刑。
2003年3月11日，Rubio 在德州 Brownsville 杀害了他与同居伴侣 Angela Camacho 的三个孩子：3岁的 Julissa、14个月大的 John Esteban 与2个月大的 Mary Jane。他当时对 Camacho 说，他相信孩子们被邪灵附身，其中包括他已故祖母的亡魂。Camacho 于2005年认罪，被判三项无期徒刑。
Rubio 于2003年11月首次被判死刑，这项定罪于2007年被推翻；2010年重审中，他再次被判犯有死刑谋杀罪并被判死刑，德州刑事上诉法院于2012年维持了判决。今年10月，该法院驳回了他停止执行的动议。他的律师10月下旬还提出，检方当年曾依赖一名法医精神科医生的虚假证词来谈他的用药与精神症状，这一批评没有改变执行安排。辩方在历次审理中提出，Rubio 患有偏执型精神分裂症与妄想，陪审团没有接受其精神失常辩护。
Texas Man Who Killed Three Young Children: Clemency Denied, Execution Set for November 12 at Huntsville
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously denied clemency on November 10 to death-row inmate John Allen Rubio, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on November 12 at the Huntsville Unit.
On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas, Rubio killed the three children he shared with his common-law wife, Angela Camacho: Julissa, aged 3; John Esteban, 14 months; and Mary Jane, 2 months. He had told Camacho that he believed the children were possessed by evil spirits, including the spirit of his deceased grandmother. Camacho pleaded guilty in 2005 and received three life sentences.
Rubio was first sentenced to death in November 2003, but the conviction was overturned in 2007. At his 2010 retrial he was again convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the sentence in 2012. In October this year the court denied his motion to stop the execution. His attorneys also alleged in late October that prosecutors had relied on false testimony from a forensic psychiatrist concerning his medication and symptoms of psychosis; the claim did not change the execution schedule. Across his trials, the defense presented experts who said Rubio suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and delusions, and juries rejected his insanity defense.
来源：德州赦免与假释委员会
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图片来源：美国德克萨斯州Huntsville监狱（资料图，该州死刑在此执行）。图：Nick DiFonzo，CC BY 2.0，经维基共享资源 / The Huntsville Unit in Texas (file photo; state executions are carried out there). Photo by Nick DiFonzo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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