President Donald Trump’s freshly set up attorney general of the United States, Pam Bondi, has actually purchased the transfer of a federal prisoner to Oklahoma so he can be performed, following through on Trump’s sweeping executive order to more actively support the death sentence.
Bondi today directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to move prisoner George John Hanson, 60, so that he can be performed for his function in the kidnapping and killing of a 77-year-old female in Tulsa in 1999.
” The Department of Justice owes it to the victim and her household– in addition to the general public– to move prisoner Hanson so that Oklahoma can perform this simply sentence,” Bondi composed in a memo to the BOP’s director.
Oklahoma Chief Law Officer Gentner Drummond, who looked for Hanson’s transfer last month, applauded Bondi’s quick action. He asked for Hanson be moved before Oklahoma’s next execution on March 20 so that he would be qualified for the next readily available execution date, most likely in June.
Hanson was sentenced to death in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, after he was founded guilty of carjacking, kidnapping and eliminating Mary Bowles after he and an accomplice abducted the female from a Tulsa shopping center.
Hanson, whose name in Oklahoma court records is noted as John Fitzgerald Hanson, has actually been serving a life sentence in federal jail in Louisiana for numerous federal convictions, consisting of being a profession criminal, that precede his state death sentence.
Hanson’s lawyers with the federal Public Protector’s Workplace did not instantly discuss Bondi’s order.
Drummond’s predecessor, John O’Connor, formerly looked for Hanson’s transfer and took legal action against the Bureau of Prisons in 2022 after it declined to turn over the prisoner to state custody throughout President Joe Biden’s administration. The firm’s local director at the time, Heriberto Tellez, stated the transfer was not in the general public interest, a choice Drummond called “dreadful.”.