Death row inmate John Hanson. Hanson, a 61-year-old man convicted of a 1999 double murder, was executed on June 12, 2025, in Oklahoma, the third inmate put to death in the United States this week.

Editor’s note: An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to John Hanson. Find the latest on his case here. Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled ...

Death row inmate John Hanson was executed at 10:11 a.m. on Thursday by lethal injection with no complications. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond released a statement following the ...

Oklahoma had scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2022, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state.

Oklahoma had scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2022, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state.

Death row inmate John Hanson's latest attempt at avoiding execution has been denied by the Oklahoma State Court of Criminal Appeals. Wednesday, June 11th 2025, 8:15 am. By: ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m., prison officials said.

Nearly 26 years after he and an accomplice killed two people as part of a crime spree, 61-year-old George John Hanson was executed Thursday morning. Hanson died by lethal injection at the Oklahoma ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, has been scheduled to be put to death Thursday, but a district court judge temporarily halted the execution this week after Hanson’s attorneys argued he didn’t ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, is set to die for killing a Tulsa woman in 1999. But Hanson’s lawyers have argued that he did not receive a fair clemency hearing last month before the state’s five ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal appeals rules John Hanson's legal team will not get a fifth attempt to overturn his conviction. A jury convicted Hanson and sentenced him to death for kidnapping ...

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.