Bondi orders federal inmate transferred for execution

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President Donald Trump’s newly put in legal professional normal, Pam Bondi, has ordered the switch of a federal inmate to Oklahoma so he may be executed, following by on Trump’s sweeping govt order to extra actively help the demise penalty.

Bondi this week directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to switch inmate George John Hanson, 60, in order that he may be executed for his function within the kidnapping and killing of a 77-year-old girl in Tulsa in 1999.

“The Division of Justice owes it to the sufferer and her household — in addition to the general public — to switch inmate Hanson in order that Oklahoma can perform this simply sentence,” Bondi wrote in a memo to the BOP’s director.

Oklahoma Legal professional Normal Gentner Drummond, who sought Hanson’s switch final month, praised Bondi’s swift motion. He requested Hanson be transferred earlier than Oklahoma’s subsequent execution on March 20 in order that he can be eligible for the subsequent accessible execution date, probably in June.

Hanson was sentenced to demise in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, after he was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping and killing Mary Bowles after he and an confederate kidnapped the lady from a Tulsa shopping center.

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Hanson, whose identify in Oklahoma court docket information is listed as John Fitzgerald Hanson, has been serving a life sentence in federal jail in Louisiana for a number of federal convictions, together with being a profession legal, that predate his state demise sentence.

Hanson’s attorneys with the federal Public Defender’s Workplace didn’t instantly touch upon Bondi’s order.

Drummond’s predecessor, John O’Connor, beforehand sought Hanson’s switch and sued the Bureau of Prisons in 2022 after it refused to show over the inmate to state custody throughout President Joe Biden’s administration. The company’s regional director on the time, Heriberto Tellez, stated the switch was not within the public curiosity, a choice Drummond known as “appalling.”