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"Another tad bit of information about John Joubert: He was not executed in 1998. He was killed July 17,1996. Please review your information before posting it. He also was not a native of Maine. He was born in Lawerence, Mass. This means he is a native of Mass."

Also, see stories from 1996:

"Child killer executed in Nebraska

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A former Boy Scout leader who said he enjoyed "seeing the fear" of his murder victims was executed in the electric chair early Wednesday for stabbing two boys to death in 1983.

John Joubert, also a former airman, confessed to repeatedly stabbing and slashing Danny Jo Eberle, 13, and Christopher Walden, 12, near the Air Force Base where he was stationed.

After Joubert was convicted in Nebraska, he was convicted in Maine with strangling and stabbing 11-year-old Richard Stetson in Portland in 1982. He got a life prison term without parole for that killing.

"It was the power and the domination and seeing the fear," Joubert told the Omaha World-Herald last month in explaining why he killed the boys. "That was more exciting than actually causing the harm."

Joubert, 33, has said the murders were the culmination of years of psychosexual fantasies."

http://www.recordernews.com/1996/0717/natnews/natb/natb.html

And, interestingly,

CNN
News Briefs
June 28, 1996

"High court stops execution of convicted murderer

LINCOLN, Nebraska (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution Thursday of a Nebraska man convicted of killing three boys, aged 11 to 13. Officials made no comment about the reason behind the stay.

John Joubert said that he committed the crimes for sadistic pleasure. He was sentenced to death for two of the murders, and life without parole for the third."

http://www.cnn.com/US/9606/28/newsbriefs/