Oklahoma Executes James Pavatt, 73, for 2001 Murder Plot of Lover's Husband
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Updated · Fox News · Nov 12
Oklahoma Executes James Pavatt, 73, for 2001 Murder Plot of Lover's Husband
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 12
Summary
James Pavatt was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. Thursday after a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, with prison officials saying the execution was uneventful and that he spoke no final words.
The 73-year-old had been convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy for the 2001 killing of Rob Andrew, a 39-year-old advertising executive shot in his garage while picking up his two children before Thanksgiving.
Prosecutors said Pavatt and Brenda Andrew — Pavatt's lover and Rob Andrew's estranged wife — plotted the murder, then fled to Mexico with her two children before being arrested three months later while re-entering the United States.
At a clemency hearing last month, Pavatt maintained his innocence and said Brenda Andrew had manipulated him, but prosecutors argued both were equally responsible regardless of who fired the fatal shots.
The execution was the first of two scheduled in the United States on Thursday; Brenda Andrew was separately convicted and remains under a death sentence.