If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June—one each in Florida and Mississippi—the same number of ...

A small group gathered outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in Thursday, June 12, during the execution of George John Hanson, 61. The group offered up prayers and support for Hanson, his family and ...

Twenty-three men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and seven other people are scheduled to ...

The United States Supreme Court declines to hear a final appeal from convicted murderer John Hanson. Hanson’s lawyers asked ...

A 61-year-old man convicted of a 1999 double murder was executed on Thursday in Oklahoma, the third inmate put to death in the United States this week.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping and killing a Tulsa woman in 1999, but his exection was expedited by the Trump administration ...

A man was put to death in Oklahoma Thursday morning for the 1999 killing of two people, which the Biden administration had halted two years prior. The execution of John Hanson, 61, was made possible ...

John Hanson, 61, died nearly 26 years after a crime spree with an accomplice that included the slaying of Mary Bowles, 77, ...

On Thursday, the state of Oklahoma executed a man convicted of carjacking and murdering a woman and then murdering a bystander.

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

Oklahoma has executed death row inmate John Hanson for the 1999 carjacking and murder of a 77-year-old woman and an innocent bystander.

Death row inmate John Hanson's latest attempt at avoiding execution has been denied by the Oklahoma State Court of Criminal ...