16 hours ago · Hanson, 60, was serving a life sentence for bank robbery and other federal crimes at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. He faces execution in Oklahoma for murdering retired banker Mary ...

1 day ago · Hanson had been set for execution in Oklahoma on Dec. 15, 2022. A regional director at the Federal Bureau of Prisons refused to release him, writing "his transfer to state authorities for state execution is not in the public interest." The position was in keeping with the Biden administration's opposition to the death penalty.

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976. The total amounts to 127 people, and all were executed by lethal injection . [ 1 ] Of the 127 people, 124 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.

Dec 19, 2024 · Oklahoma on Thursday morning carried out the nation's final execution of 2024, putting to death a former grocery store stocker convicted of murdering a 10-year-old girl in 2006.

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The state has executed the second-largest number of convicts in the United States (after Texas) since re-legalization following Gregg v. Georgia in 1976. [1] . Oklahoma also has the highest number of executions per capita in the United States. [2]

Apr 4, 2024 · Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m., the Department of Corrections confirmed to CBS News....

Dec 19, 2024 · Kevin Ray Underwood was sentenced to die for the killing of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006 as part of a cannibalistic fantasy. Underwood, a former grocery store worker, turned 45 on the...

Feb 13, 2025 · Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested the transfer following President Trump's executive order on capital punishment. Hanson's execution was delayed in 2022 under the Biden ...

Aug 25, 2022 · The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set 25 execution dates for convicted murderers who have exhausted appeals of their convictions and sentences.

Jul 6, 2022 · The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has set exe­cu­tion dates for 25 of the state’s 43 death-row pris­on­ers, sched­ul­ing near­ly an exe­cu­tion a month from August 2022 through December 2024.