Oklahoma's top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be executed for his role in the kidnapping and killing of a 77-year-old woman in 1999.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has requested the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer a man in a Louisiana prison to Oklahoma so a death sentence can be carried out for a 1999 murder. >> Open the video player above to see some of the headlines KOCO 5 is following.

Oklahoma AG Drummond has requested the transfer of inmate George John Hanson from federal to state custody for execution, aligned with President Trump's executive order enforcing capital punishment laws.

John Fitzgerald Hanson was to have been executed in 2022 for a fatal shooting. The Biden administration blocked his transfer from a federal prison in Louisiana.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested Friday that a prisoner on Oklahoma’s death row be transferred from federal prison in Louisiana so he can be executed. George John Hanson, 60, was convicted for the 1999 kidnapping and murder of 77-year-old Mary Bowles.

Governor Kevin Stitt (R) said some illegal immigrants in Oklahoma state prisons have committed crimes so heinous that he will not sign off on their release to be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking for convicted murderer George John Hanson to be transferred from federal prison in Louisiana to Oklahoma so he can be executed.

Just months before his scheduled execution in 2022, the state's request to transfer John Hanson was denied. He murdered a retired Tulsa banker and an Owasso trucking company owner in 1999.

Plans for a new community space in a predominately Hispanic neighborhood are intersecting with a rising culture of fear.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate so that he could be executed for his role in kidnapping and killing of a 77-year-old woman.

After some panic and confusion, a push from President Donald Trump to freeze federal funding on Tuesday was officially rescinded Wednesday afternoon.

A new expansion for the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum was announced Wednesday ahead of the notorious bombing's 30th anniversary this year.