John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on May 7 to deny clemency. That vote means his clemency request cannot go on to the governor.

After the Supreme Court overturned Richard Glossip’s conviction, prosecutors claimed to have “a plethora of evidence,” while ...

An Oklahoma appeals court has ordered a stay of execution for a man on death row to be lifted, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued ...

An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection for killing a Tulsa woman in 1999.

An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration and who was scheduled to receive a lethal injection on ...

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Kevin Stitt and the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, and for prosecuting people protesting the murder of George Floyd in 2020, among other controversies. As Oklahoma County's top prosecutor, Prater ...

An Oklahoma judge has granted a temporary stay of execution to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration ...

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MCALESTER, Okla. (KFOR) – The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate John Hanson on Thursday. Officials say Hanson and an accomplice carjacked and kidnapped 77-year-old Mary Bowles in Tulsa ...

Both Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and his predecessor, John O’Connor, had sought Hanson’s transfer during President Joe Biden’s administration, but the U.S. Bureau of Prisons denied it, ...