Entries tagged with “John Hanson”
Death Row
May 06, 2026
“Reclaiming Life From the Ashes”: How Clemency Can Honor Rehabilitation on Death Row
On death row, prisoners experience some of the harshest conditions in the American prison system, which often take a severe psychological and physical toll. Despite these challenges, many death-sentenced prisoners completely transform in prison — they become remorseful, accept responsibility, and devote themselves to education, mentorship, faith, and advocacy. Their stories stand in stark contrast to the common narrative that people sentenced to death are beyond redemption. John Hanson of…
Issues
Upcoming Executions
,Nov 21, 2022
Oklahoma Pushes Back Clemency Hearings, Changing Execution Timelines
Oklahoma has pushed back the clemency hearings of two men on death row, John Hanson and Richard Glossip (pictured). Glossip’s execution date was also moved back, and Hanson’s execution date will likely have to be changed. Both men were scheduled to have clemency hearings on Nov. 9, 2022, and to be executed before the end of the year, as part of Oklahoma’s planned spree of 25 executions scheduled between August 2022 and December 2024. The state’s decision to execute so many people in a short…
Executions
Upcoming Executions
,Oct 24, 2022
Federal Officials Refuse to Transfer Prisoner to Oklahoma for Execution
A federal prison warden has denied an Oklahoma District Attorney’s request to transfer John Fitzgerald Hanson (pictured) to Oklahoma’s custody to be executed, stating that the transfer “is not in the public’s best interest.” Hanson is incarcerated at a federal prison in Louisiana. In 2000, Hanson was sentenced by the federal government to life in prison plus 107 years for a series of armed robberies. He was later sentenced to death in Tulsa County, Oklahoma for the 1999 murders of Mary Bowles…
Executions
Upcoming Executions
,Jun 13, 2022
Oklahoma Attorney General Requests 25 Execution Dates Despite Independent Investigation and Claims of Innocence, Serious Mental Illness, and Brain Damage
Oklahoma state prosecutors are pushing to schedule 25 executions over approximately two years, after a federal judge denied death-row prisoners’ challenge to the state’s controversial lethal-injection protocol. On June 10, 2022, Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set execution dates for 25 of the 28 prisoners who were parties to the execution-protocol challenge. The request came just four days after Judge Stephen Friot’s ruling that the…