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Texas and Oklahoma Carry Out Executions in Separate Murder Cases
Rubio’s execution follows years of appeals after his conviction in the 2003 killings of three children he was raising, officials said.
- On Thursday, Oklahoma executed James Pavatt, 73, for the 2001 murder of 39-year-old advertising executive Rob Andrew at the state penitentiary in McAlester, pronouncing him dead at 10:12 a.m. CST.
- Prosecutors alleged that Pavatt and Brenda Andrew conspired to kill her husband before Thanksgiving, with Pavatt having been having an affair with Brenda Andrew weeks before the shooting.
- In Huntsville, Texas, officials scheduled the execution of John Allen Rubio for Thursday evening, convicted of the 2003 killings of three young children including 3-year-old Julissa Quesada in Brownsville.
- Rubio claimed he was the "chosen one" intended to save the world, though defense experts diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia; his first conviction was overturned on appeal before a second trial.
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced mass clemency plans last week that experts say would be the largest mass clemency in American history, while former inmate Richard Glossip pleaded guilty Thursday after spending nearly 30 years in prison.
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A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing and being three young children in a squalid, windowless apartment in 2003 was executed Thursday, hours after Oklahoma put another man to death. John Allen Rubio, 46, was pronounced dead at 6:47pm after he was given an injection at the state prison...
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Texas man convicted in beheading of 3 children is put to death, hours after an Oklahoma execution
A Texas man convicted of stabbing and beheading three children he helped raise has been put to death, hours after an execution in Oklahoma. John Allen Rubio received a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state prison in Huntsville. In…
·Lancaster, United States
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