Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face execution. The transfer came 40 days after President Donald Trump issued an executive order "restoring" the death penalty. The Biden administration had blocked Hanson's return in 2022.

A convicted murderer has been transferred to the Oklahoma StatePenitentiary in McAlester to carry out his death sentence.George John Hanson was convicted of t

A man sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of a Tulsa woman has been returned to Oklahoma custody, where officials plan to move forward with his execution.

Although a Tulsa County jury sentenced Hanson to death, he had been serving a separate life sentence in a Louisiana federal prison for bank robbery.