Execution day — 24 years after the murder. ⏳
📅 12 November 2026
James Pavatt, 73, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 10 a.m. today, Thursday 12 November, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, for the 2001 murder of Oklahoma City advertising executive Rob Andrew, 39.
Andrew was shot twice in the garage of his home on 20 November 2001, as he arrived to pick up his children for Thanksgiving. Prosecutors said Pavatt and Brenda Andrew — Rob's estranged wife — planned the killing to collect an $800,000 life insurance policy. Both were sentenced to death; Brenda Andrew remains on death row with no execution date set.
Pavatt, a former Air Force master sergeant, has always maintained his innocence. On 14 October the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3–2 against recommending clemency, and his lawyers' last-minute appeal to the US Supreme Court was still pending as of Wednesday — so a final stay is still possible.
After 24 years on death row, is this justice served — or justice delayed? 👇