OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 12, 2026) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond made the following comments today after the execution of James Pavatt at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
“Justice has been served for Rob Andrew who was taken from his children and his family far too soon,” Drummond said. “I pray that his family finds some sense of peace after 25 years of grief.”
Pavatt was sentenced to death for the 2001 murder of Rob Andrew, a 39-year-old Oklahoma City advertising executive and father of two. Evidence presented at Pavatt’s trial showed he began an affair with Andrew's wife, Brenda Andrew, in 2001. Prosecutors argued, and the jury agreed, that the murder was especially cruel, and that Pavatt killed Andrew for money, pointing to his and Brenda's efforts to gain control of an $800,000 insurance policy on Andrew's life.
Brenda was later tried separately, convicted and also sentenced to death for Andrew's murder.
