has died in a Nashville prison. James Leggett, 29, died on July 4 at Riverbend Maximum Security Insitution, Tennessee Department of Corrections spokesperson Dorinda Carter said by email Tuesday.

Tennessee carried out its first execution in more than five years Thursday morning, marking the first time the state used a new lethal injection protocol involving a single dose of pentobarbital.Oscar ...

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.

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

Oscar Franklin Smith, 75 and sentenced to die for a triple murder in Nashville in 1989, spoke his last words from a gurney on May 22.

Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the brutal murders of his estranged wife and her two sons in 19 ...

the Tennessee Department of Correction confirmed. Smith, 75, is to die by lethal injection on May 22 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Smith requested hotdogs, tater tots and ...

Visitors to Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ... were nearly 100 residents of the maximum security prison — the two groups separated only by a chain link fence. Miles Adcox, chairman ...