John Hanson, 61, received the lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on Thursday morning, becoming the 22nd death row inmate to be executed in the US this year.

Defense attorneys are seeking copies of more than 1,400 documents from the FBI in an appeal for a man on death row for killing New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw. A response to a public records ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied a motion for rehearing for the man who has been on the state’s death row longer than any other inmate. In May 2025, the Mississippi ...

Oklahoma had scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2022, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state.

One year ago, Florida killer Wade Wilson, who shares his name with the alter ego of the Marvel character Deadpool, was convicted of the gruesome murders of two Cape Coral women.

The execution of George John Hanson, a death row inmate convicted of killing two people in 1999, will proceed Thursday after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals sided with the state attorney ...

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has brought nearly 350 death penalty cases over the past two decades. But only 41 — or 13 percent — have ended with a death sentence.

Oklahoma had scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2022, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state.

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

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

L.A. Reid will produce the singer’s next album as part of the new partnership with the company launched by Larry Jackson.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is on track to execute more prisoners than any governor in Florida history. We don’t defend the heinous ...