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.

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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

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.

The Oklahoma Attorney General is asking the federal government to transfer a death row inmate back into the state's custody for execution in line with a Presidential Executive Order regarding executions.

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.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has formally requested the U.S. Bureau of Prisons transfer convicted murderer George John Hanson to Oklahoma,

A woman in Oklahoma is heading to prison for shooting and killing her sister-in-law after the victim took her marijuana grinder and "refused to give it back," according to federal prosecutors. The post ‘Your sister shot me’: Woman murdered sister-in-law over marijuana grinder she ‘believed’ was stolen from her as brother slept feet away first appeared on Law & Crime.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate so that he could be executed for his role in kidnapping and killing of a 77-year-old woman.

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 lawmakers are gearing up to debate a variety of criminal justice bills, including one that would pause the death penalty.