Hanson was set to be executed Thursday for a 1999 Tulsa murder, but a judge is putting his case on pause over concerns of due process.

Nearly 26 years after he and an accomplice killed two people as part of a crime spree, 61-year-old George John Hanson was executed Thursday morning. Steven Harpe, director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections,

John Hanson, 61, died nearly 26 years after a crime spree with an accomplice that included the slaying of Mary Bowles, 77, and the murder of a second innocent bystander.

Oklahoma had scheduled John Hanson's execution for Dec. 15, 2002, but the Biden administration blocked his transfer from federal custody to the state.

George John Hanson, a death row inmate convicted of killing two people in 1999, received a temporary stay of execution Monday, according to court records.