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    Can Oklahoma still schedule any executions Mike? Will anyone else be effected in the others that have exhausted all their appeals?

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    This type of ruling and changing of jurisdiction is completely unpreceded. I highly doubt they will be able to move on anyone until they resolve the resulting ligation from all this.
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Hanson's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
    Case Numbers: (PCD-2020-611)
    Decision Date: September 9, 2021

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/...22zor_bq7d.pdf

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    John Hanson's execution date has been set for December 15th, 2022.

    https://www.oscn.net/dockets/GetCase...126&cmid=93281

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    According to the Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Paroles website, the clemency hearing for John Hanson has been scheduled for November 9th, 2022, at 9.00 AM. The link is malfunctioning, so I can't post it.

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    Feds block transfer of Oklahoma death row inmate, halting upcoming execution plan

    By Ryan Love
    KRJH

    The Federal Bureau of Prisons is denying Oklahoma's request to transfer death row inmate George John "Fitzgerald" Hanson to have his death sentence carried out, the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday.

    Hanson is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 15 for the 1999 killings of Mary Agnes Bowles and Jerald Thurman. Prosecutors say Hanson and another man carjacked Bowles at Tulsa Promenade and took her to a dirt site where Thurman was working before the man he was with killed Thurman and Hanson shot Bowles several times.

    Hanson is currently serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Louisiana for a bank robbery that happened after the murders but that he was charged for before the murders.

    “I am outraged at the position assumed by the federal government in this case,” said Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler. “The crimes for which Hanson is serving time in federal custody were committed after his involvement in the murders of Mary Bowles and Jerald Thurman. Of what reasonable purpose is there for him to remain in federal custody – at taxpayers’ expense – when he can and should be delivered to Oklahoma authorities for the rendition of the punishment he received here?”

    Kunzweiler's office says the transfer of prisoners held by other jurisdictions is not unusual, especially since Hanson exhausted all of his appeals in this case. The BOP sent Kunzweiler's office a letter saying it “is not in the public’s best interest” to transfer Hanson to state custody.

    “We are actively seeking to determine under whose ultimate authority the denial of his transfer was authorized,” Kunzweiler said. “This wreaks of politics. At present, we have communicated with officials in the Federal Bureau of Prisons demanding an explanation. We have communicated with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office to request their assistance and investigation. We have reached out to our United States Attorney’s Office requesting assistance. We have also requested assistance from our local Congressional delegation.”

    Hanson has a clemency hearing scheduled for Nov. 9. He's scheduled to be executed on Dec. 15.

    https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news...execution-plan
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    Honestly, I'm a little confused as to why he wasn't kept in state custody from the moment of his death sentence. Surely that deserved primacy.

    For example, in Alabama Walter Moody was kept in state custody as soon as he was sentenced to death. I believe the same for Eugene Clemons. I'm failing to understand why Hanson wasn't simply kept in state custody as well.
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    The Oklahoma AG and Tulsa County DA have sued the Biden Administration, seeking a court order compelling the transfer of Hanson to state custody. The suit was filed in a Texas Federal District Court, assigned to Judge Reed O'Connor, because that is where the executives who denied the transfer are based. OK argues that public interest favors transfer, and that executing Hanson would satisfy both state and federal justice, as it would complete his life sentence too.

    Here's an excerpt of the appeal, where Oklahoma utterly demolishes the federal government's rationale:

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    Clemency hearing for Oklahoma death row inmate in federal custody delayed

    By Kaylee Douglas
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    OKLAHOMA CITY – Officials with the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board say Oklahoma death row inmate John Hanson’s clemency hearing set for Nov. 9 will be rescheduled as he currently remains in federal custody.

    Hanson is currently serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Pollock, Louisiana for a string of armed robberies. However, he was sentenced to death in Oklahoma for the murder of two people in Tulsa County back in 1999.

    The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) recently denied Attorney General John O’Connor and Tulsa District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler’s request to transfer Hanson to Oklahoma for his clemency hearing as well as his execution scheduled for Dec. 15.

    Kunzweiler said federal officials refused to relinquish custody as it was not in the public’s best interest.

    O’Connor asked the bureau to reconsider – and asked for a response by October 24, but no one with the BOP replied.

    O’Connor and Kunzweiler have since filed a lawsuit against the BOP for custody of Hanson to carry out his sentence.

    Oklahoma reinstated executions back in 2021, around the same time the White House issued a moratorium on federal executions.

    Oklahoma law requires an inmate’s clemency hearing be on or before the 21st calendar day preceding the scheduled execution date.

    https://kfor.com/news/local/clemency...stody-delayed/

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