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.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has requested the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer a man in a Louisiana prison to Oklahoma so a death sentence can be carried out for a 1999 murder. >> Open the video player above to see some of the headlines KOCO 5 is following.

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