Oscar Franklin Smith put to death
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Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for the brutal murders of his estranged wife and her two sons in 19
Tennessee carried out its first execution in more than five years Thursday morning, marking the first time the state used a new lethal injection protocol involving a single dose of pentobarbital.Oscar Franklin Smith,
Oscar Franklin Smith, 75 and sentenced to die for a triple murder in Nashville in 1989, spoke his last words from a gurney on May 22.