Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, is scheduled to be the first to die by Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol on May 22.

Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve that revealed ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, 75 and sentenced to die for a triple murder in Nashville in 1989, spoke his last words from a gurney on ...

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, ...

Killer, who spent over 30 years on Tennessee's death row, was executed for the murders of his estranged wife and her two sons ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, who was convicted of murdering his estranged wife and her two sons in 1989, was executed by lethal ...

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.

Oscar Smith's execution Thursday marks the end of a nearly 36-year ordeal for Judy Robirds Smith's family. We spoke to an investigator who helped build the case against Smith.

Executions will resume in Tennessee Thursday at 11:10 a.m. with the killing of Oscar Smith, a man convicted in a 1989 triple ...

Gov. Bill Lee has denied Oscar Smith’s request for clemency ahead of his execution scheduled for May 22. A reprieve from Lee ...