Overview

• The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals this week overturned a district judge’s stay of execution that had been granted over allegations of bias by a clemency board member.
• The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Hanson’s last appeal challenging an alleged undisclosed deal with a key witness, leaving no federal avenues for relief.
• Hanson was transferred from federal custody in Louisiana to Oklahoma in March after President Trump’s executive order on capital punishment reversed a Biden-era block on his transfer.
• He is slated to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester for the 1999 carjacking, kidnapping and murder of 77-year-old Mary Bowles.
• Hanson’s lawyers argue the clemency hearing was unfair due to a board member’s prior role in his prosecution, despite his public expressions of remorse.