Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking for convicted murderer George John Hanson to be transferred from federal prison in Louisiana to Oklahoma so he can be executed.

George John Hanson, 60, is on Oklahoma’s death row for the 1999 murder of Mary Bowles. Prosecutors say Hanson and his accomplice, Victor Cornell Miller, carjacked and kidnapped Bowles in Tulsa. Then, the two took Bowles to a dirt site near Owasso where Hanson shot and killed her.

A bystander who witnessed the crime, Jerald Max Thurman, was killed by Hanson’s accomplice. Hanson received a life sentence without parole for his role in Thurman’s death.

When he received convictions for the murders, Hanson was already in federal prison. A series of armed robberies in Northeast Oklahoma put him behind bars for a sentence of life plus 107 years.

Hanson was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma in 2022, but the U.S. Bureau of Prisons denied his transfer from federal prison to the state, saying it was not in “the public interest.”

In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, Drummond said he hopes administration under President Donald Trump will come to a different conclusion.

Drummond’s request follows an executive order from Trump on Monday that calls for the restoration of the death penalty.

“The prior administration’s refusal to transfer Inmate Hanson to state custody to finally carry out a decades-old death sentence is the epitome of subverting and obstructing the execution of a capital sentence,” Drummond wrote the Bureau. “As a result, I respectfully request that you comply with federal law and President Trump’s righteous order by transferring Inmate Hanson to state custody."

Drummond asked that Hanson be transferred before March 20 so he is eligible for the next available execution date.