A small group gathered outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in Thursday, June 12, during the execution of George John Hanson, 61. The group offered up prayers and support for Hanson, his family and ...

Twenty-three men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and seven other people are scheduled to be put to death in five states during the ...

A South Carolina man convicted of a 2005 double murder was put to death by lethal injection on Friday, the fourth execution ...

Oklahoma Death Row inmate John Hanson was executed on Thursday for the 1999 kidnapping and killing of Mary Bowles.

A 61-year-old man convicted of a 1999 double murder was executed on Thursday in Oklahoma, the third inmate put to death in the United States this week.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping and killing a Tulsa woman in 1999, but his exection was expedited by the Trump administration ...

The Biden administration blocked the inmate's transfer from federal custody to state, but Oklahoma set it again after Trump's election ...

On Thursday, the state of Oklahoma executed a man convicted of carjacking and murdering a woman and then murdering a bystander.

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

UPDATE (5/30/25) — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board (OPPB) filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by the attorneys for death row inmate John Fitzgerald Hanson. The lawsuit ...

Attorneys for John Hanson allege ... A Tulsa County jury sentenced Hanson to death. Hanson is set to be executed on June 12, 2025. If carried out, it would mark Oklahoma’s second execution ...

Attorneys for death-row inmate John Hanson filed a lawsuit in state court ... Hanson claims in his lawsuit, filed in Oklahoma County District Court, that he is entitled to a new clemency hearing ...