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Byron James Shepard was in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, awaiting execution for the fatal shooting of a Tecumseh police officer.

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Attorney General Gentner Drummond commended Hanson’s execution, saying that while the crime was committed over 25 years ago, Oklahoma will hold murderers accountable.

Hanson, 61, faces execution for the fatal shooting of an elderly Tulsa woman in 1999. His execution by lethal injection is set for 10 a.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was executed in Oklahoma on Thursday, June 12, for the 1999 murder of Mary Agnes Bowles. This was Oklahoma's 17th execution since 2021 and the third in the U.S. that week.