Texas and Oklahoma prepare to execute two men on Thursday

Two men were scheduled to be executed in the United States on Thursday, the New York Post, USA Today, AP News, and The Seattle Times all reported. The planned executions were scheduled to take place in the states of Texas and Oklahoma. [1][2][3][4]

The scheduled execution in Texas involves a father who killed three young children he was raising in 2003, according to the New York Post, USA Today, AP News, and The Seattle Times. The New York Post reported that the killing involved the beheading of the three children and rattled a community located along the border between the United States and Mexico. [1][2][3][4]

In Oklahoma, James Pavatt was set to die by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of the estranged husband of a woman with whom he was having an affair, the New York Post reported. Prosecutors stated that he carried out the killing alongside the woman, who is currently the only woman on death row in Oklahoma. [1]

Oklahoma is a landlocked state located in the South Central, Southern, and Southwestern regions of the United States, which borders Texas to the southwest. The New York Post noted that the United States is on track to surpass its previous execution counts. [1][5]