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

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 ...

Smith has continued to claim that he is innocent. In a phone interview on May 7 — shortly before he was to begin a 14-day period of relative isolation that is part of the new Tennessee execution ...

Tennessee has executed Oscar Franklin Smith for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, 35-year-old Judith Robirds Smith, and her sons, 13-year-old Jason Burnett and 16-year-old Chad Burnett.

The triple murder committed by Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith proves one thing, according to a detective who worked the decades-old case: "True evil exists." Smith, 75 ...

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

Smith's attorney, Kelley Henry, a chief in the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee, said Smith, 75, was placed on death watch May 20 at 10:30 a.m. Death watch ...

The governor declined to step in to grant Smith a reprieve three years after he called off his last execution. The state of Tennessee has executed Oscar Franklin Smith, sentenced to death for the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Just over three years ago, Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve that revealed problems with the ...