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Oscar Franklin Smith, who was convicted of murdering his estranged wife and her two sons in 1989, was executed by lethal ...
Tennessee has carried out the United States' 19th execution of the year, killing 75-year-old death row inmate Oscar Smith for ...
Terri Osborne, center, speaks as her brother, Mike Robirds, right, listens outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ...
A Tennessee man who killed his wife and her two teenage sons is facing execution, three years after he was saved by a ...
Outside the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, a small group of protesters gathered to oppose the execution of Oscar Smith.
A three-year pause followed COVID-19--and the state switched from a three-drug cocktail to a single drug: pentobarbital.
The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years. A judge has temporarily called off one man's ...
The state of Tennessee executed Oscar Franklin Smith Thursday morning. It was the first lethal injection since 2019, and ...
Oscar Franklin Smith was sentenced to death for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife Judith Robirds Smith and her sons Chad and Jason Burnett.
Oscar Smith, who was convicted of the 1989 murders of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons, was put to death by lethal ...
The state’s first execution since 2020 was originally set for 2022, but activists convinced Gov. Lee to grant a reprieve.