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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sean Murphy

Oklahoma court clears the way for execution of a man convicted in a Tulsa woman's killing

Oklahoma Execution Hanson - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for him to receive a lethal injection for killing a Tulsa woman in 1999.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, has been scheduled to be put to death Thursday, but a district court judge temporarily halted the execution this week after Hanson’s attorneys argued he didn’t receive a fair clemency hearing before the state’s Pardon and Parole Board. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ordered that temporary stay of execution be lifted.

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