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    Hanson and Jones may well get execution dates by the end of this year and, nearly certainly, by the end of next year.

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    Hanson v. Sherrod

    Opinion Date: August 13, 2015

    Court: Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

    This appeal arose out of the murders of Jerald Thurman and Mary Bowles in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At trial, a jury convicted defendant John Hanson for the murder of Mary Bowles with malice aforethought and for the felony murder of Thurman. At the penalty phase, the jury found three aggravating circumstances. The trial court sentenced Hanson to death. On direct appeal, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ("OCCA") reversed Hanson's death sentence and remanded for a new sentencing hearing. At the resentencing hearing, the jury again sentenced Hanson to death for Bowles's murder. Hanson appealed his sentence to the OCCA, which struck the jury's finding of the great-risk-of-death aggravator, but still affirmed his sentence. After the OCCA denied Hanson's application for collateral relief, Hanson filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus The district court denied the petition, but it granted him a certificate of appealability ("COA"). The Tenth Circuit also granted a COA on all of his remaining issues. On appeal to the Tenth Circuit, Hanson raised five issues: (1) six instances of ineffective assistance of both trial and appellate counsel; (2) two instances of prosecutorial misconduct; (3) his death sentence should have been invalidated because the OCCA invalidated the great-risk-of-death aggravator; (4) the trial court erred in its jury instruction on mitigating evidence that impermissibly limited the jurors' consideration of mitigation evidence; and (5) cumulative error. After review, the Tenth Circuit concluded none of these issues had merit to warrant reversal of Hanson's sentence. Accordingly, the Court affirmed the district court's denial of the habeas petition.
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    On September 30, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit DENIED Hanson's petition for en banc rehearing.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/15-8396.htm

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    Not sure if this is the same guy, but if he is then he is doing life in federal prison right now.

    https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/

    GEORGE JOHN HANSON
    Register Number: 08585-062
    Age: 52
    Race: Black
    Sex: Male
    Located at: Pollock USP
    Release Date: LIFE

    And the Oklahoma listing of Death Row Inmates seems to support that as well

    https://www.ok.gov/doc/documents/DRMR.pdf

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    According to the Oklahoma DOC link, he's currently being held in federal prison. However, he's still under an Oklahoma death sentence.

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Hanson's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (13-5100)
    Decision Date: August 13, 2015
    Rehearing Denied: September 30, 2015

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/15-8396.htm

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    Hanson is serving a life sentence plus 157 years in a federal prison in Louisiana for several bank robberies. He will return to Oklahoma when his execution is set.
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    U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

    By Lawrence Hurley
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    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday recognized about half of Oklahoma as Native American reservation land and overturned a tribe member’s rape conviction because the location where the crime was committed should have been considered outside the reach of state criminal law.

    The justices ruled 5-4 in favor of a man named Jimcy McGirt and agreed that the site of the rape should have been recognized as part of a reservation based on the historical claim of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation - beyond the jurisdiction of state authorities. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court’s four liberals in the majority.

    The ruling means that for the first time much of eastern Oklahoma is legally considered reservation land. More than 1.8 million people live in the land at issue, including roughly 400,000 in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s second-largest city.

    Tribe members who live within the boundaries are now set to become exempt from certain state obligations such as paying state taxes, while certain Native Americans found guilty in state courts may be able to challenge their convictions on jurisdictional grounds.

    The tribe also may obtain more power to regulate alcohol sales and expand casino gambling.

    The ruling could affect the other four of the “Five Tribes” in Oklahoma: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole tribes.

    The ruling voided McGirt’s sentence of 1,000 years in prison but he could face a new trial in federal court rather than state court.

    Under U.S. law, tribe members who commit crimes on tribal land cannot be prosecuted in state courts and instead are subject to federal prosecution, which sometimes can be beneficial to defendants. Reservations were established beginning in the 19th century after U.S. authorities expelled Native Americans from their traditional lands.

    McGirt, 71, has served more than two decades in prison after being convicted in 1997 in Wagoner County in eastern Oklahoma of rape, lewd molestation and forcible sodomy of a 4-year-old girl. McGirt, who did not contest his guilt in the case before the justices, had appealed a 2019 ruling by a state appeals court in favor of Oklahoma.

    McGirt is a member of the Seminole Nation. The crime occurred on land historically claimed by the Creek Nation.

    At issue was whether the Muscogee (Creek) Nation territory where the crime was committed should be considered a Native American reservation or whether Congress eliminated that status around the time Oklahoma became a state in 1907.

    Oklahoma argued that the Creek Nation never had a reservation. But even if one existed, the state and President Donald Trump’s administration argued it long ago was eliminated by Congress.

    The justices weighed a complex historical record that started with the forced relocation by the U.S. government of Native Americans, including the Creek Nation, to Oklahoma in a traumatic 19th century event known as the “trail of tears.”

    A reservation is land managed by a tribe under the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and generally exempt from state jurisdiction including taxation.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN24A268
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    Is Hanson an Indian?

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    All of these guys are going to apply for DNA testing to prove if they have any Native blood. Which will take some time, so the ruling is relevant to all of their cases.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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