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Smith is one of dozens of death row inmates who joined a lawsuit arguing that lethal injection amounts to state-sanctioned torture, and that the injection creates the sensation of drowning and burning alive.
20 kwi 2022 · Death row inmate Oscar Smith, who was convicted of killing his estranged wife and her teenage sons in 1989, is set to be executed Thursday after Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) denied his...
7 mar 2022 · Oscar Franklin Smith, 72, is the next death row inmate slated to be executed. Convicted in the 1989 triple slaying of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons, Smith is scheduled to die...
21 kwi 2022 · Smith was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting Judith Smith and her sons Jason and Chad Burnett, 13 and 16, at their Nashville home on Oct. 1, 1989. Smith has maintained he is innocent....
20 kwi 2022 · Oscar Franklin Smith, 72, the oldest inmate on the state's death row, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on Thursday evening.
22 kwi 2022 · Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was put to death for the June 1990 fatal shooting of a Houston police officer, James Irby, during a traffic stop. Smith had initially been scheduled for a June 2020...
20 kwi 2022 · Oscar Smith, 72, will be put to death by lethal injection on Thursday over the triple murders of his estranged wife Judith Smith and her two teenage sons Jason and Chad Burnett back in 1989....
