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Oklahoma judge stays execution of a man set to receive lethal injection this week

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John Fitzgerald Hanson , 61 , was set to die Thursday for killing a Tulsa woman in 1999 .

Hanson ’s lawyers have argued that he did not receive a fair clemency hearing last month .

They claim board member Sean Malloy was biased because he worked for the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office when Hanson was being prosecuted.

Hanson had been serving a life sentence in federal prison in Louisiana for several federal convictions.