OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection for killing a Tulsa ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection for killing a Tulsa woman in 1999.

John Fitzgerald Hanson complained in a lawsuit about his clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

Federal appellate judges are reconsidering what will happen next for Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row.

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss.

Oklahoma scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2022, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state. Now it's back on amid a busy year for executions.

John Hanson was put to death Thursday for the murder of two people in 1999, years after the Biden administration had halted his execution ...