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AG Drummond asks for inmate in Louisiana federal prison be transferred to Oklahoma for execution
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Oklahoma Attorney General requests prisoner transfer from Louisiana for execution
Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested Friday that a prisoner on Oklahoma’s death row be transferred from federal prison in Louisiana so he can be executed. George John Hanson, 60, was convicted for the 1999 kidnapping and murder of 77-year-old Mary Bowles.
Drummond wants federal inmate transferred to Oklahoma for execution
Attorney General Gentner Drummond has requested the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer a man in a Louisiana prison to Oklahoma so a death sentence can be carried out for a 1999 murder. >> Open the video player above to see some of the headlines KOCO 5 is following.
Oklahoma AG seeks transfer of convicted murderer for execution
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has urged the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer convicted murderer George John Hanson from a Louisiana federal prison to Oklahoma to carry
Oklahoma Attorney General requests convicted murderer be transferred for execution
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer a convicted murderer from federal prison to Oklahoma. George John Hanson
Oklahoma tries again to get death row inmate transferred from federal prison
Just months before his scheduled execution in 2022, the state's request was denied to transfer John Hanson, who murdered a retired Tulsa banker and an Owasso trucking company owner in 1999.
AG asks feds for custody of death row inmate
The Oklahoma Attorney General is asking the federal government to transfer a death row inmate back into the state's custody ...
How Trump being back in the White House could lead to an execution in Oklahoma
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.
Supreme Court will weigh approval for US’ 1st publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma
The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious ...
'Blizzard' Warning for Louisiana and Texas Amid Blanket of Freezing Weather
Several counties across the southern Louisiana and Texas border are braced for an onslaught of powerful winds and heavy snow, ...
Oklahoma still has one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation
Oklahoma was one of 12 states to reduce its prison population in 2023, though its incarceration rate remains among the ...
Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms is back in court
A three-judge panel in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments about a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms ...
Oklahoma sees lowest temperatures in nearly 4 years overnight into Tuesday
Dangerous cold temperatures remained across Oklahoma, with the lowest temperatures in nearly four years hitting the state.
Snow in Florida? See unusual places that got more snow than Oklahoma this week
After a freak winter storm crossed the Gulf Coast this week, some typically warm locations saw more snow than Oklahoma did.