Oklahoma's top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be executed for his role in the kidnapping and killing of a 77-year-old woman in 1999.

Oklahoma Wants Federal Inmate Transferred So He Can Be Put to Death OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so ...

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be executed for his role in the kidnapping and killing ...

George John Hanson was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of a 77-year-old woman who was carjacked and kidnapped from a Tulsa mall

Governor Kevin Stitt (R) said some illegal immigrants in Oklahoma state prisons have committed crimes so heinous that he will not sign off on their release to be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

Oklahoma AG Drummond has requested the transfer of inmate George John Hanson from federal to state custody for execution, aligned with President Trump's executive order enforcing capital punishment laws.

John Fitzgerald Hanson was to have been executed in 2022 for a fatal shooting. The Biden administration blocked his transfer from a federal prison in Louisiana.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking for convicted murderer George John Hanson to be transferred from federal prison in Louisiana to Oklahoma so he can be executed.

More inmates died in Oklahoma's prisons in 2024 than 2023. It was the highest number of deaths in state prisons in six years.

Just months before his scheduled execution in 2022, the state's request to transfer John Hanson was denied. He murdered a retired Tulsa banker and an Owasso trucking company owner in 1999.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested Friday that a prisoner on Oklahoma’s death row be transferred from federal prison in Louisiana so he can be executed. George John Hanson, 60, was convicted for the 1999 kidnapping and murder of 77-year-old Mary Bowles.