A reprieve was Smith's last legal avenue to avoid execution. The Tennessee Department of Correction served Smith his last meal at 5:30 p.m. May 21, according to spokesperson Dorinda Carter.

A judge has ruled that Ralph Leroy Menzies is competent enough to be executed for the 1986 kidnapping and death of a Utah woman. Her son said her family is pleased by the ruling.

He had no execution date, Bolton said, and his latest appeal of his death sentence are still pending before the Montana Supreme Court. Many details of the death have not been released.

Arizona executed a death-row inmate Thursday for molesting and fatally bludgeoning a 9-year-old girl in a case that spread fear through the quiet mountain community of Flagstaff and the rest of ...