Let us thank you for your fine article about John Hanson in the Dec. 28-29 edition of The Frederick News-Post (“Finding the lost president”) and especially for telling the story of the recent finding ...

Authorities have returned federal inmate John Fitzgerald Hanson to Oklahoma to face a likely execution about a month after President Donald Trump issued an executive order restoring federal executions ...

MCALESTER, Okla. (KFOR) – The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate John Hanson on Thursday. Officials say Hanson and an accomplice carjacked and kidnapped 77-year-old Mary Bowles in Tulsa in ...

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 execution, ...

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 then ...

The Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole denied death row inmate John Hanson clemency on May 7, putting his fate in the hands of the federal judiciary. The board voted 3-2 to deny Republican Governor ...

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Oklahoma has executed a man two and a half years after the Biden administration thwarted his original date with death. John Hanson, 61, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning, June 12.

This March 4, 2025, photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP) OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma board denied ...