Oklahoma's top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be ...

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

Governor Kevin Stitt (R) said some illegal immigrants in Oklahoma state prisons have committed crimes so heinous that he will ...

Oklahoma AG Drummond has requested the transfer of inmate George John Hanson from federal to state custody for execution, ...

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

Oklahoma was one of 12 states to reduce its prison population in 2023, though its incarceration rate remains among the ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking for convicted murderer George John Hanson to be transferred from federal prison ...

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 ...