Executions in Oklahoma, Texas include a father who beheaded 3 children

Two men were scheduled to be executed Thursday in Oklahoma and Texas. John Allen Rubio, convicted of killing three young children he was raising in Texas in 2003, was set to die at the state prison in Huntsville. James Pavatt, convicted of fatally shooting his girlfriend’s estranged husband, was scheduled for lethal injection at Oklahoma’s state penitentiary in McAlester. The United States is on pace for more than 40 executions this year.