Oklahoma inmate who killed lover's husband is executed after lavish final meal

Oklahoma inmate who killed lover's husband is executed after lavish final meal James Pavatt, 73, has been executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, after shooting his lover's estranged husband dead A man has been executed after killing his lover's estranged husband in 2001, the first of two executions scheduled in the US on Thursday. James Pavatt, 73, was executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was pronounced dead at 10:12am local time, Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesperson Lance West said. In Texas, John Allen Rubio is set to be put to death later. The 46-year-old was convicted of beheading three young children he was raising in a horrifying 2003 killing. Pavatt was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Rob Andrew, a 39-year-old advertising executive. He was fatally shot in the garage of the Oklahoma City home he'd previously shared with his wife as he picked up their two young children before Thanksgiving. Pavatt, who attended the same church as the Andrew family, had been having an affair with Rob Andrew's wife, Brenda Andrew. She was convicted at a separate trial and sentenced to death. Weeks before the shooting, Rob Andrew told police someone was trying to kill him after the brake lines on his car were cut. Brenda Andrew told police after her husband was killed that masked intruders shot her in the arm and fatally shot him. Pavatt and Brenda Andrew went to Mexico with her two children after the shooting and were arrested three months later while reentering the US. At a clemency hearing last month, Pavatt said he was "not guilty of shooting anyone," and that he'd fallen in love with Brenda Andrew and believed "everything she told me." "It was not until my trial that I began to see the extent to which I had been manipulated by Brenda," Pavatt told the board. "I can see why the jury believed that we were both involved in Rob's murder." Prosecutors said that Pavatt and Brenda Andrew plotted to kill her husband, and that no matter who fired the shots, both were equally guilty. For his last meal on Wednesday, Pavatt requested a lavish three-meat barbecue dinner and a strawberry milkshake. Witnesses described the execution as uneventful and said Pavatt did not have any last words. John Allen Rubio to be executed in Texas Rubio and his girlfriend, Angela Camacho, were accused in the killings of three-year-old Julissa Quesada, 14-month-old John E. Rubio and two-month-old Mary Jane Rubio in the squalid, windowless apartment they shared in Brownsville, located on Texas' border with Mexico. Camacho pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence. Rubio's first capital murder conviction in the killings was overturned by an appeals court, which ruled that statements by Camacho were wrongly allowed as evidence in his trial. Rubio again pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity for his second trial but he was once again convicted and sentenced to death. Rubio, according to court records, wasn't the biological father of the two older children but treated them as if they were his own. At various points, Rubio claimed the children were possessed and that he was the "chosen one" intended to save the world. Defense experts diagnosed Rubio as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, a determination rejected by prosecution experts. Defense experts testified his childhood - filled with violence at home, "toxic" parents, drug use and prostitution - damaged him developmentally. The apartment building where the children were killed was later demolished and the land was turned into a park and a community garden. Rubio is set to be executed at the state prison in Huntsville later today.