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.

Death row inmate John Hanson's execution will proceed as scheduled on Thursday after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied a petition claiming the state withheld evidence during his trial.

The state of Oklahoma has executed a man convicted in the 1999 murder of a 77 year old woman who was kidnapped at a Tulsa shopping mall, the state announced Thursday.