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.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer a convicted murderer from federal prison to Oklahoma. George John Hanson

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