Oklahoma man executed for killing of girlfriend’s husband, with a Texas lethal injection to follow

James Pavatt, 73, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for fatally shooting his girlfriend’s estranged husband. He was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. CST. Pavatt’s execution was the first of two scheduled in the United States that day; John Allen Rubio was due to be executed in Texas later Thursday for the 2003 killings of three children.