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John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
John Fitzgerald Hanson complained in a lawsuit about his clemency hearing before the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.
Oklahoma executed John Fitzgerald Hanson for a 1999 carjacking murder after his transfer from federal custody.
John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was executed in Oklahoma on Thursday, June 12, for the 1999 murder of Mary Agnes Bowles. This was Oklahoma's 17th execution since 2021 and the third in the U.S. that week.
Oklahoma executed John Fitzgerald Hanson Thursday for the 1999 kidnapping and murder of a Tulsa woman. Hanson and Victor ...
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's execution date of June 12, 2025, has been reinstated by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Hanson was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of Mary Agnes Bowles ...
Oklahoma is scheduled to execute John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, on Thursday, after he was transferred to state custody under an order expedited by the Trump administration. Hanson was convicted of ...
John Fitzgerald Hanson, sentenced to death for a 1999 murder, has been granted a stay of execution pending the resolution of his lawsuit against the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board. Hanson claims ...
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 ...