Oklahoma man, 73, executed for plotting murder of lover’s husband, offers no last words

Oklahoma executed James Pavatt, 73, by lethal injection for plotting with his lover to murder her estranged husband, Rob Andrew, in 2001. Pavatt made no final statement; the case drew renewed attention after he maintained his innocence at a clemency hearing last month.

Andrew, a 39-year-old advertising executive, was shot in his garage while collecting his two children. Prosecutors said Pavatt and Brenda Andrew planned the killing; both were convicted and sentenced to death in separate trials. The pair fled to Mexico with the children and were arrested three months later while re-entering the United States. Pavatt was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. local time.