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Oscar Franklin Smith, 75 and sentenced to die for a triple murder in Nashville in 1989, spoke his last words from a gurney on ...
Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, is scheduled to be the first to die by Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol on May 22.
Tennessee has executed Oscar Smith for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad ...
Tennessee executed Oscar Franklin Smith on Thursday morning for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife and two sons inside of their Nashville home.
Executions have resumed in Tennessee after a five-year hiatus. Death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was killed by ...
Oscar Franklin Smith became the first man in five years to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday, and News 2’s Tori Gessner ...
The state’s first execution since 2020 was originally set for 2022, but activists convinced Gov. Lee to grant a reprieve.
After the execution of Oscar Franklin Smith on May 22, witnesses are slated to speak at a news conference outside the prison.
Smith was convicted of killing his estranged wife, Judy Smith, and her two teenage sons, Chad and Jason Burnett, inside their ...
Executions will resume in Tennessee Thursday at 11:10 a.m. with the killing of Oscar Smith, a man convicted in a 1989 triple ...
Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve that revealed ...