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Tennessee Executes Oscar Smith after 34 Years on Death Row
Oscar Franklin Smith, who was convicted of murdering his estranged wife and her two sons in 1989, was executed by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Tennessee, marking the state's first execution since 2020 and the first under a revised lethal injection protocol.
Oscar Franklin Smith had been on death row for over 30 years for a triple murder
On 1 October, 1989, Robirds was shot in the neck before being stabbed several times. Her eldest, Chad, was found having been shot in the left eye, as well as the chest and torso. Jason, her youngest son, had been stabbed in the neck and abdomen.
Christa Pike, then 18, tortured and killed another young woman. In 2024, Pike was removed from de facto solitary confinement.
The three men executed this week all died by lethal injection. As is so often the case, their lives were plagued by either ...
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