Two executions carried out in Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday brought the United States total to 37 executions this year, according to the source material. The country is on track to exceed 40 executions for a second consecutive year, a pace the source attributes to Florida.
In Texas, John Allen Rubio, 46, was put to death. He had been convicted of fatally stabbing and beheading three young children in 2003.
Hours earlier, Oklahoma executed James Pavatt, 73, for the 2001 fatal shooting of his girlfriend's estranged husband.