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.

Oklahoma AG Drummond has requested the transfer of inmate George John Hanson from federal to state custody for execution, aligned with President Trump's executive order enforcing capital punishment laws.

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

Just months before his scheduled execution in 2022, the state's request to transfer John Hanson was denied. He murdered a retired Tulsa banker and an Owasso trucking company owner in 1999.

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.

Oklahoma was one of 12 states to reduce its prison population in 2023, though its incarceration rate remains among the highest in the nation.

The Oklahoma Attorney General is asking the federal government to transfer a death row inmate back into the state's custody for execution in line with a Presidential Executive Order regarding executions.

Oklahoma is past its former title of top incarcerator in the world, though progress moving down the national rankings has plateaued.

An ICE official said the agency’s list of criminal suspects was sufficiently long that officers would be able to continue prioritizing public safety and national security threats to meet quotas.

The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into what a proclamation from President Donald Trump could mean for an Oklahoma immigration law that was previously blocked by a federal court.

A new letter from the U.S. Department of Justice has officials taking another look at HB 4156, the immigration law that was halted federally.