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Texas and Oklahoma executions scheduled for Thursday

Texas and Oklahoma were preparing to execute John Allen Rubio and James Pavatt on Thursday. Rubio was scheduled to die at the state prison in Huntsville for the 2003 beheading of three children he was raising; Pavatt was scheduled for lethal injection in McAlester for fatally shooting the estranged husband of a woman with whom he was having an affair. Prosecutors said she took part in the killing.

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