Legendary Oklahoma Meteorologist Gary England Dies
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Oklahoma death row inmate John Hanson is scheduled to be executed on Thursday at the state penitentiary in McAlester.
John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Oklahoma Death Row prisoner John Hanson is granted a temporary stay of execution Monday. Oklahoma County District Judge Richard Ogden granted the stay after Hanson's attorneys filed a lawsuit claiming that a May 7 clemency hearing violated Hanson's rights and requested the stay of execution until the matter is resolved.
Hanson was set to be executed Thursday for a 1999 Tulsa murder, but a judge is putting his case on pause over concerns of due process.
Oklahoma will seek a new murder trial for longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip but next round without the death penalty.
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Oklahoma prosecutors say they will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss.
Oklahoma prosecutors will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said Monday.