NASHVILLE, TN – Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was executed Thursday morning at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, marking the end of Tennessee’s three-year moratorium on lethal injections. He was ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was tried and sentenced to the death penalty by the State of Tennessee, after a jury’s careful deliberation, based upon the brutality of three murders that included two children.

Oscar Smith was sentenced to death after he was convicted of the murder of Judith Smith and her two sons, Jason and Chad Burnett, at their Nashville home on Oct. 1, 1989.

For the first time in five years, a man is about to be executed in Tennessee. 75-year-old Oscar Franklin Smith will be given a lethal injection at 10 a.m. Thursday.

The author, born in prison, is an advocate for the incarcerated She regularly visits death row inmates and became friends with Oscar Franklin Smith, who was executed on May 22 Our time together ...

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.