Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.

When a Tennessee death row inmate faces execution ... Connie Johnson's body and leave it in her parked van at the Mall of Memphis. Johnson declined to pick a last meal and asked that his ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled for execution on May 22, will die by lethal injection if the process moves forward. Smith, who was asked to choose between lethal ...

This story has been updated to reflect a stay of execution for one of the death row inmates previously assigned a September execution date. Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate ...

This story has been updated to reflect a stay of execution for one of the death row inmates previously assigned a September execution date. Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled ...

Gerald Powers, a Tennessee ... inmates in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. A jury convicted Powers of first-degree murder for killing a woman, Shannon Sanderson, in 1996 in ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A former board member for the Tennessee Inmate Disciplinary Oversight pleaded guilty to aggravated statutory rape and was sentenced to four years of supervised probation ...

A former member of the Tennessee Inmate Disciplinary Oversight Board on Monday morning pleaded guilty to aggravated statutory rape. She will not serve time in prison. Vanessa Murtaugh was indicted ...

David Kustoff, a Tennessee ... Memphis mayor: DOJ retracting civil rights findings 'does not change' police reform effort "The extent of coordinated criminal activity carried out by inmates ...