Christa Pike, then 18, tortured and killed another young woman. In 2024, Pike was removed from de facto solitary confinement.

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was served his last meal on May 21 ahead of his execution scheduled for 10 a.m. the next morning.

Oscar Franklin Smith was sentenced to death for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife Judith Robirds Smith and her sons ...

Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Smith is scheduled to be executed Thursday, marking the state’s first execution in more than ...

Executions have resumed in Tennessee after a five-year hiatus. Death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was killed by ...

Sometime on May 8, two weeks before his scheduled execution, Oscar Smith was moved away from the other men on death row and ...

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

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

Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, was convicted in the 1995 torture death of fellow Knoxville Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer, 19. Pike's attorneys secured a settlement with ...

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by ... Her downtown Nashville church, Christ Church Cathedral, includes a death row ministry. “For me, it’s just all about what God teaches ...