Christa Pike, then 18, tortured and killed another young woman. In 2024, Pike was removed from de facto solitary confinement.

Oscar Franklin Smith was served his last meal on May 21 ahead of his execution scheduled for 10 a.m. the next morning.

Oscar Franklin Smith's last meal will be delivered to him hours before the planned execution. He is set to die by lethal ...

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

Oscar Franklin Smith, who was convicted of murdering his estranged wife and her two sons in 1989, was executed by lethal ...

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 three men executed this week all died by lethal injection. As is so often the case, their lives were plagued by either ...

Tennessee executed Oscar Franklin Smith on Thursday morning for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife and two sons inside of their Nashville home.

Oscar Smith was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting Judith Smith, 13-year-old Jason Burnett and 16-year-old Chad Burnett at their home in Nashville, Tennessee.

On 1 October, 1989, Robirds was shot in the neck before being stabbed several times. Her eldest, Chad, was found having been ...

A Tennessee man is scheduled to be given a lethal injection on Thursday, marking the end of a five-year hiatus in executions ...