Pavatt set to be executed this morning

James Dwight Pavatt, 72, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 10 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was convicted of killing his lover’s husband in 2001 as part of a plot to collect life insurance. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections set the execution for this morning; Pavatt would be the fourth person executed in Oklahoma this year.