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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
According to a federal report, Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, Oklahoma's mortality rate was 396 per 100,000 in state and federal prisons, excluding executions. It's higher than the ...