By Vanguard Staff 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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee carried out its first execution in five years Thursday as the state put convicted murderer Oscar Smith, 75, to death by lethal injection. Smith was sentenced to ...

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. New Poll Reveals Gavin Newsom ...

When the subject turned to Oscar Franklin Smith, whose conviction for the murder of his estranged wife and her two sons from a previous marriage landed him in Unit 2, the playing stopped.

Smith was born in Ohio in 1950, one of seven children. His family later moved to Robertson County. He met Judith Lynn Robirds, a waitress at a Waffle House, and the couple married in 1985. They ...

Smith was born in Ohio in 1950, one of seven children. His family later moved to Robertson County. He met Judith Lynn Robirds, a waitress at a Waffle House, and the couple married in 1985. They ...