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

Tennessee will execute Oscar Franklin Smith this week, while a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol ...

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

Tennessee is set to execute its first death row inmate in years. Here's which states have the death penalty and which methods are still practiced.

"There are several changes that they've made that I'm not sure why. The guys aren't sure why. Words that I heard on Monday ...

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

Benjamin Ritchie became the second person executed in Indiana in 15 years on Tuesday as, more than two decades after killing ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As Tennessee is set to carry out its first execution under the state’s new death penalty protocol this month, some death row inmates say the firing squad would be ...

Before Rogers’ death, the most recent U.S. execution was in Florida and took place May 1, when Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, died ...