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 ...

George John Hanson was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of a 77-year-old woman who was carjacked and kidnapped from a ...

In 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons denied the state’s request to transfer federal inmate George John Hanson, known as John Fitzgerald Hanson, in his Oklahoma death-sentence case. That decision ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested Friday that a prisoner on Oklahoma’s death row be transferred ...

DEATH row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith writhed for minutes ... as she hitchhiked through the state on the way to her mother's home in Louisiana. As nitrogen began to flow, the murderer rocked ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

Harris County inmate Erik Carlson died on Jan. 25 after he was transferred to a correctional facility in Louisianna.

Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...