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John Fitzgerald Hanson complained in a lawsuit about his clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.
John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Extensive courtroom experience, years in law enforcement, juvenile justice, public engagement will make David Prater a great ...
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on May 7 to deny clemency. That vote means his clemency request cannot go on to the governor.
After the Supreme Court overturned Richard Glossip’s conviction, prosecutors claimed to have “a plethora of evidence,” while ...
An Oklahoma appeals court has ordered a stay of execution for a man on death row to be lifted, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals issued ...
An Oklahoma judge has granted a temporary stay of execution to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration ...
Both Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and his predecessor, John O’Connor, had sought Hanson’s transfer during President Joe Biden’s administration, but the U.S. Bureau of Prisons denied it, ...
Oklahoma executed John Fitzgerald Hanson by lethal injection for carjacking, kidnapping, and murdering Mary Bowles. Hanson was also found guilty of killing of witness Jerald Thurman. His execution ...
Hanson's execution was in doubt after an Oklahoma judge granted him a stay on Monday. The stay stemmed from Hanson's arguments that one of three members of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board who ...
Richard Glossip will have to wait a little longer to find out if he will go free while he awaits his third murder trial. Glossip, once Oklahoma's most high-profile death row inmate, is asking to be ...