Oklahoma had scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2002, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state.

John Fitzgerald Hanson's execution date of June 12, 2025, has been reinstated by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

Twenty-one men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Nine other people are scheduled to be put to death in seven states during the remainder of 2025.

Death row inmate John Hanson's execution will proceed as scheduled on Thursday after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ...

Death row inmate John Hanson’s execution will proceed after the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Oklahoma denied his petition.

Background: In April 2025, Ashlynd Huffman, a reporter for The Frontier, submitted an open records request to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections seeking reports on the death of an inmate and other ...

In the second case, a stolen computer was kept at the home of Billy Green, then 18. Green was charged with burglary and threatened with a sentence of 40 years. Green pleaded guilty to possession of ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt in his State of the State address highlighted the case of a man who struggled to get a fresh start after his release from prison because of court-ordered debts that totaled nearly $30 ...

While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present an overall ...

Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal – ...

A man convicted of raping and killing a woman three decades ago after kidnapping her from a supermarket parking lot in ...