# Executions in Oklahoma and Texas include father who beheaded 3 children

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/executions-in-oklahoma-and-texas-include-father-who-beheaded-3-children/
- Published: 2026-11-12T07:16:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T07:21:28+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/12/us-news/executions-set-for-oklahoma-murderer-james-pavatt-and-texas-killer-josh-rubio/
- Topics: Americas, World

## Key points

- Texas and Oklahoma scheduled executions for John Allen Rubio and James Pavatt.
- Rubio was convicted of killing three children in 2003.
- Pavatt was convicted in the 2001 killing of Rob Andrew.

## Summary

Two men were scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday in Texas and Oklahoma. The cases have drawn attention amid a rise in US executions and renewed debate over capital punishment, including a planned mass commutation of death sentences in California.

John Allen Rubio, 46, was convicted of killing three young children in Brownsville in 2003; his first conviction was overturned over evidence admitted at trial, but he was convicted again. James Pavatt, 73, was sentenced to death for conspiring with Brenda Andrew, with whom he was having an affair, to kill her estranged husband Rob in 2001. Pavatt denied shooting anyone at a clemency hearing, while prosecutors argued both he and Andrew were responsible.

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