Oklahoma's top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be executed for his role in the kidnapping and killing of a 77-year-old woman in 1999.

John Fitzgerald Hanson was to have been executed in 2022 for a fatal shooting. The Biden administration blocked his transfer from a federal prison in Louisiana.

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Gov. Kevin Stitt said he will review the cases of undocumented immigrants serving time in Oklahoma correctional facilities individually.

A push to deport undocumented immigrants serving time in Oklahoma prisons doesn’t mean that they won’t be required to serve out their sentences or will escape justice. Gov. Kevin Stitt said he will review the cases of undocumented immigrants serving time in Oklahoma correctional facilities individually before deciding whether to commute any

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Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has formally requested the U.S. Bureau of Prisons transfer convicted murderer George John Hanson to Oklahoma,

Oklahoma AG Drummond has requested the transfer of inmate George John Hanson from federal to state custody for execution, aligned with President Trump's executive order enforcing capital punishment laws.

George John Hanson was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of a 77-year-old woman who was carjacked and kidnapped from a Tulsa mall

The Oklahoma Attorney General is asking the federal government to transfer a death row inmate back into the state's custody for execution in line with a Presidential Executive Order regarding executions.

Federal prosecutors have dropped the case against a Texas doctor who called himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors and was accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients who weren’t under his care.