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Death Row Inmate Oscar Franklin Smith Is Executed By Lethal Injection

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Judy Smith
Judy Smith

By order of the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Department of Correction carried out the death sentence of Oscar Franklin Smith by means of lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution on Thursday morning. Inmate Smith was pronounced dead at 10:47 a.m. CDT.

Smith was convicted for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judy Smith, and her sons, Chad and Jason Burnett.


Chad and Jason Burnett
Chad and Jason Burnett
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