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John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...
John Fitzgerald Hanson complained in a lawsuit about his clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.
John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was executed in Oklahoma on Thursday, June 12, for the 1999 murder of Mary Agnes Bowles. This was Oklahoma's 17th execution since 2021 and the third in the U.S. that week.
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration and who was scheduled to receive a ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration and who was scheduled to receive a ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration and who was scheduled to receive a ...
Hanson, 61, faces execution for the fatal shooting of an elderly Tulsa woman in 1999. His execution by lethal injection is set for 10 a.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.