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 ...

A South Carolina man convicted of a 2005 double murder was put to death by lethal injection on Friday, the fourth execution ...

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

A death row inmate has been executed for double murder and the kidnapping of an elderly woman in 1999. John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, and his accomplice Victor Miller abducted Mary Bowles, 77, from a ...

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 ...