The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face something that ...

DEATH row’s oldest inmate left behind an eerie plea with his final words before being executed by lethal injection. Tennessee prisoner Oscar Smith, 75, was put to death on Thursday morning ...

Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Smith died by lethal injection Thursday for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife Judith Smith and her teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.

The sentencing in Skahan’s court, however, was appealed. The Tennessee Supreme Court ultimately agreed that Payne’s life ...

His execution by lethal injection marks the return of Tennessee’s death penalty after more than five years. It was also the first to be carried out with pentobarbital under the state’s new ...

Oscar Franklin Smith is set to be executed by lethal injection for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, 35-year-old Judith ...

Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Smith, who was granted a temporary reprieve three years ago, died by lethal injection Thursday for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife Judith Smith and her ...

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed ... Christina Isbell was among the death penalty opponents who protested outside the prison. Her downtown Nashville church, Christ Church Cathedral ...