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

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

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

Tennessee's oldest death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith was executed via lethal injection for the murder of estranged wife ...

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

Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Smith died by lethal injection Thursday for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife Judith ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...