Oklahoma death row inmate John Hanson is scheduled to be executed on Thursday at the state penitentiary in McAlester.

Oklahoma is scheduled to execute John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, on Thursday, after he was transferred to state custody under an ...

Oklahoma had scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2002, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state.

An inmate set to be killed this Friday in South Carolina has lost a last-minute fight to pause his execution after a federal judge decided not to halt executions.

A Judge denied Stephen Stanko a delay in his execution. Federal court judge Gergel said one of the reasons for his denial is ...

In the death chambers of the Mississippi Delta, on a rainy night in an Indiana penitentiary, and in the early hours at an ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson's execution date of June 12, 2025, has been reinstated by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for ...

A federal judge doesn’t plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man’s lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process ...

Gergel’s decision left Stanko’s lawyers to focus on lethal injections. They argued that inmates in the past three lethal injection executions died a lingering death, still conscious as they felt like ...