Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

He was sentenced to death by a Davidson ... Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada and Assistant Commissioner of Prison Operations Linda Thomas leave the Riverbend Maximum ...

(WZTV) — Tennessee carried out its first execution ... Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was pronounced dead at 10:47 p.m. at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. He had been on death row for more ...

He was sentenced to death by a Davidson County ... are awaiting their fate in prison, stating, "I'm not the first, and I'm not going to be the last. The Tennessee prisoner, 75, was secured to ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.

Tennessee prisoner Oscar Smith was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 slayings of his ex-wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad Burnett. Smith, 75, was ...

A yearlong investigation into Tennessee’s execution procedure revealed that prison authorities were ... wrote on the execution at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on ...

Terri Osborne, center, speaks as her brother, Mike Robirds, right, listens outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ... Burnett at their Nashville, Tennessee, home on Oct. 1, 1989. He was ...

The Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) says Oscar Smith, who was sentenced to death in 1990, was pronounced dead inside Riverbend Maximum Security Prison at 10:47 Thursday morning.

Tennessee has executed Oscar Smith for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was sentenced to death for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife Judith Robirds Smith and her sons ...