On 1 October, 1989, Robirds was shot in the neck before being stabbed several times. Her eldest, Chad, was found having been ...

Oscar Franklin Smith had furious final words for the governor Bill Lee ahead of his lethal injection execution ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, who was convicted of murdering his estranged wife and her two sons in 1989, was executed by lethal ...

Tennessee carried out its first execution in more than five years Thursday morning, marking the first time the state used a ...

Oscar Smith's execution Thursday marks the end of a nearly 36-year ordeal for Judy Robirds Smith's family. We spoke to an investigator who helped build the case against Smith.

Tennessee has carried out the United States' 19th execution of the year, killing 75-year-old death row inmate Oscar Smith for ...

Terri Osborne, center, speaks as her brother, Mike Robirds, right, listens outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ...

Smith becomes the state’s first execution since 2020, while also becoming the first inmate to be executed under the state’s new protocol. Smith was under an hour away from his originally scheduled ...

A man sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of his wife and her two sons was executed in Tennessee on Thursday, according to ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was the first death row inmate to be executed in Tennessee in five years. Witnesses recount the moments leading up to his execution, including a message to Governor Bill Lee.