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.

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 ...

“Fill us with your spirit so that we may help transform hearts and minds in Oklahoma to stop this barbaric practice,” Heath said. “John Hanson was a human. Killing him did not bring back the ...

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.

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

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday whose transfer to state custody was expedited by the Trump administration. John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, received a three-drug lethal ...

Oklahoma death row inmate John Hanson was executed by lethal injection at 10:11 a.m. with no complications. Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in a statement: "Today, justice was finally ...

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.