Oklahoma has executed a man two and a half years after the Biden administration thwarted his original date with death.
John Hanson, 61, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning, June 12. He was convicted of killing 77-year-old Mary Agnes Bowles after he and another man carjacked and kidnapped her from a mall on Aug. 3, 1999. The men also killed a witness, Jerald Thurman.
Hanson was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m., a corrections spokesman told USA TODAY.
Hanson's death was made possible by the Trump administration, which approved of his transfer from federal custody in Louisiana to Oklahoma in February for the sole purpose of his execution. The Biden administration had blocked the transfer in 2022, in line with the former president's opposition to the death penalty.
Hanson's execution also came the same week that he won a stay from a judge, only for it to be overturned by a higher court. Hanson is now the 23rd inmate to be executed in the U.S. this year and is one of four men to be executed this week alone.
