Oklahoma Attorney General Sues Biden Admin Over Refusal to Transfer Death Row Inmate to State Custody

The state of Oklahoma is suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons over the bureau’s refusal to transfer a death row inmate set to be executed in December into Oklahoma’s custody.
John Hanson, 58, was sentenced to death in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, for the 1999 murders of Mary Bowles, 77, and Jerald Thurman, 44.
His death sentence was initially overturned before being reinstated with a deadline of Dec. 15, 2022.
Hanson is currently being held at a federal prison in Pollock, Louisiana, serving a life sentence for numerous federal convictions that predate his state death sentence.
He has a clemency hearing set for Nov. 9, which will be his last chance to secure clemency before being given a lethal injection….