News

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
John Hanson, 61, died nearly 26 years after a crime spree with an accomplice that included the slaying of Mary Bowles, 77, ...
An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for ...
Oklahoma executed John Fitzgerald Hanson for a 1999 carjacking murder after his transfer from federal custody.
He was executed for the fatal shooting of Mary Agnes Bowles, who was kidnapped from the parking lot of a Tulsa mall on Aug. 31, 1999. The victim was 77. Hanson and an accomplice, Victor Miller ...
An Oklahoma appeals court ordered a stay of execution be lifted for death row inmate John Hanson, making way for him to ...
Hanson and an accomplice, Victor Cornell Miller, were found guilty by a Tulsa County jury of first-degree murder in the killings of both Bowles and Jerald Max Thurman, who was killed while trying ...
On Aug. 31, 1999, Mary Bowles was in the Promenade Mall in Tulsa, getting in one of the frequent walks she liked to do for exercise. When she got back to her car, John Hanson and Victor Miller ...
Oklahoma had scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2022, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state.