The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row ...

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.

Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith picked his last meal ahead of his scheduled execution, the Tennessee Department of Correction confirmed. Smith, 75, is to die by lethal injection on ...

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 ...