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 Franklin Smith is set to be executed by lethal injection for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, 35-year-old Judith ...

FILE - Capital punishment protesters pray on the grounds of Riverbend Maximum Security Institution before the scheduled execution of inmate Oscar Smith, April 21, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn.

They are deployed when the depths of the water become a crime scene. "We go to Lady Bird Lake, we go to Lake Austin, and a lot of creeks and less than clean places to go to look for where somebody ...

The first was to identify devices near the crime scene using Google location data. The second was to reveal the identity of the device owner, and the third to access the suspect’s account ...

Oscar Smith was sentenced to death for the killings ... There was, however, plenty of evidence that linked him to the crime, including the fact his car was seen at the victim's home the night ...

Gov. Bill Lee said he does not plan to intervene in Oscar Smith's execution scheduled for May 22. Smith has no legal avenues remaining to avoid execution. Gov. Bill Lee has denied Oscar Smith’s ...

Asked in a recent phone interview about coming so close to death in 2022, Smith declined to reflect very deeply on it but instead expressed a wish that Lee had not intervened, saying the past ...

Jurors at Karen Read's second murder trial heard key testimony May 16 about microscopic pieces of evidence recovered from the crime scene where John O'Keefe's body was found outside the Canton ...

Compulsive kindness creator Ricky Smith has unveiled his latest project ... while his longstanding role as Scene dining editor has garnered awards of its own. May 19, 2025 ...

Oscar Franklin Smith has learned the date of his death four times. Twice, the inmate's execution was delayed during the pandemic. On the third date, Smith was served the meal he had picked to be ...