Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve that revealed ...

FILE - Capital punishment protesters pray on the grounds of Riverbend Maximum Security Institution before the scheduled ...

Seventeen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 11 other people are scheduled to be put to death in eight states during the remainder of 2025. Glen Rogers died by ...

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the ...

A Texas man was executed Tuesday evening, 13 years to the day of a convenience store robbery in which he set an elderly clerk ...

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

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

Smith was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad, 13 and 16, at their Nashville home on Oct. 1, 1989.