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

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

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 Smith, who spent more than 30 years on Tennessee's death row, was executed Thursday for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife and her two sons, and in his final words he insisted he was ...

I saw Oscar Smith before his execution. Death row inmates deserve mercy, too. | Opinion Oscar Smith was a person worthy of being seen and worthy of being shown love, and there is an angel working ...

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

Oscar Franklin Smith is scheduled to die by a new lethal injection protocol for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons.

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