Executions in Oklahoma and Texas include a father who beheaded 3 children

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Two men were set to be executed in the U.S. on Thursday, including a Texas father who beheaded three young children he was raising in a 2003 killing that rattled a community along the U.S.-Mexico border.In Oklahoma, James Pravatt was also set to die by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of the estranged husband of a woman with whom he was having an affair. Prosecutors say he carried out the killing with her, and she is currently the state's only woman on death row.The U.S. is on track to surpass 40 executions for a second consecutive year, a pace driven by Florida as the death penalty comes under renewed attention. Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would commute hundreds of death sentences before leaving office, which experts say would be the largest mass clemency in American history.Pavatt, 73, was set to be put to death at Oklahoma's state penitentiary in McAlester. John Allen Rubio, 46, was set to be put to death later in Texas at the