US EditionOklahoma executes a man who was transferred from federal custody by Trump officials
- On Thursday, Oklahoma carried out the execution of 61-year-old John Fitzgerald Hanson by lethal injection at McAlester penitentiary; Hanson was convicted for the 1999 killing of Mary Bowles and Jerald Thurman.
- The Trump administration authorized Hanson's transfer from federal custody in Louisiana to Oklahoma to enable his prosecution that involved capital punishment for offenses committed more than 25 years earlier.
- John Hanson was found guilty of kidnapping Mary Bowles, 77, at a Tulsa mall, then fatally shooting her and a bystander, Jerald Thurman, as part of a plot to steal her car for a series of robberies.
- Hanson was the 22nd person executed in the U.S. this year and the fourth this week; Attorney General Gentner Drummond said Oklahoma will hold murderers accountable regardless of time elapsed.
- Death penalty opponents including Don Heath and Connie Johnson protested, calling the execution disturbing, a waste of taxpayer money, and noting it did not bring back the victims.
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Oklahoma executes man convicted in 1999 murders | News Channel 3-12
By Dacoda Wahpekeche Click here for updates on this story Oklahoma (KOCO) — On Thursday, the state of Oklahoma executed a man convicted of carjacking and murdering a woman and then murdering a bystander. Near the state Capitol, protestors pushed for the death penalty to be stopped. John Hanson, 61, was executed for the 1999 murders of Mary Bowles and Jerald Thurman, though some say it was an unnecessary action. “We grieve the loss of life,” …
Oklahoma executes man convicted in 1999 murders
By Dacoda Wahpekeche Click here for updates on this story Oklahoma (KOCO) — On Thursday, the state of Oklahoma executed a man convicted of carjacking and murdering a woman and then murdering a bystander. Near the state Capitol, protestors pushed for the death penalty to be stopped. John Hanson, 61, was executed for the 1999 murders of Mary Bowles and Jerald Thurman, though some say it was an unnecessary action. “We grieve the loss of life,” …
Oklahoma executes man who was transferred from federal custody by Trump officials
John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m., prison officials said.
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