Tennessee has carried out the United States' 19th execution of the year, killing 75-year-old death row inmate Oscar Smith for ...

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.

Smith becomes the state’s first execution since 2020, while also becoming the first inmate to be executed under the state’s new protocol. Smith was under an hour away from his originally scheduled ...

A man sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of his wife and her two sons was executed in Tennessee on Thursday, according to ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was the first death row inmate to be executed in Tennessee in five years. Witnesses recount the moments leading up to his execution, including a message to Governor Bill Lee.

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

Outside the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, a small group of protesters gathered to oppose the execution of Oscar Smith.

Getting to that witness room was the last step in a long morning of movement to watch Smith die by lethal injection for the triple murder of his estranged wife, Judy Robirds Smith, and her two teenage ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years. A judge has temporarily called off one man's ...

The state of Tennessee executed Oscar Franklin Smith Thursday morning. It was the first lethal injection since 2019, and ...