The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denies clemency for a Tulsa man convicted of killing a 77-year-old woman in 1999. John Hanson was sentenced to death for the murder of Mary Bowles. Good Samaritan ...

More than 25 years after the brutal murders of Mary Bowles and Jerald Thurman, the man convicted in the case is asking the state for mercy. George John Hanson will appear before the Oklahoma Pardon ...

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 ...

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. Steven Harpe, director of the Oklahoma Department ...

An appeals court has affirmed a death penalty imposed at a Tulsa County resentencing trial that resulted when that appellate court overturned a death sentence imposed at the original trial. In an ...

McALESTER, Okla. — The lethal injection process usually takes between 15 to 20 minutes. For John Hanson at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, it took 10 minutes from the time he spoke his last words to ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate whose execution was thwarted by President Joe Biden's administration, only for it to get the green light under President Donald Trump, is now set to die on Thursday. John ...

John Hanson, convicted of a 1999 Tulsa murder, faces execution following Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board’s clemency denial. Hanson expressed remorse in a public apology, while the families of the ...

Oklahoma resident George John Hanson seeks clemency after 25 years for the brutal murders of Mary Bowles and Jerald Thurman. The Pardon and Parole Board will decide Hanson’s fate ahead of his ...