Updated at: 07/29/2010 4:15 PM | KSAX.com

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Texas Man gets Death Penalty for Beheading 3 Kids

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) - 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.
     
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