Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve just over three ...

Oscar Franklin Smith's last meal will be delivered to him hours before the planned execution. He is set to die by lethal ...

Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Smith is scheduled to be executed Thursday, marking the state’s first execution in more than ...

Attorneys were looking for the governor to pause all executions, again, until a lawsuit regarding lethal injection protocol ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was served his last meal on May 21 ahead of his execution scheduled for 10 a.m. the next morning.

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

Oscar Franklin Smith was moved to death watch, a two-day period of 24-hour observation, before his planned execution.

Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, is scheduled to be the first to die by Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol on May 22.

The attorney for death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith confirmed overnight that the 75-year-old has been put on "death watch" ...

Gov. Bill Lee has denied Oscar Smith’s request for clemency ahead of his execution scheduled for May 22. A reprieve from Lee ...

Sometime on May 8, two weeks before his scheduled execution, Oscar Smith was moved away from the other men on death row and ...

After a three-year pause because of problems with execution drugs, Tennessee is resuming the practice saying it now has a safe way to administer a lethal injection.