Posted on 04/03/2022 9:51:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Since 1989 conviction, Oscar Franklin Smith has been on death row and now he may choose between electrocution and lethal injection as a mode of death
Oscar Franklin Smith, a 71-year-old triple murderer from Tennessee, has been informed that he may choose how he wants to die as the US state restarts capital punishment after a two-year break due to a pandemic. Since his 1989 conviction, Oscar Franklin Smith has been on death row. Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row convict, was born on March 25, 1950. Smith was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife, Judy Lynn Smith, 35, and her sons Chad Burnett, 16, and Jason Burnett, 13, in Nashville on Oct. 1, 1989, when he was 40 years old.
According to Murderpedia, Smith, a former machinist from Robertson County, stabbed his ex-wife multiple times after shooting her in the neck. Her eldest son was shot in the left eye, upper chest, and left torso by him. Her younger kid had his neck and abdomen stabbed. Smith was separated from his wife at the time of the murders. Since 1916, 139 individuals have been executed in Tennessee. After a nine-year break, the state reinstated death punishment in 2018. The most recent execution was that of convicted murderer Nicholas Sutton in February 2020, soon before the Covid pandemic. In Tennessee, inmates who are given the death penalty for crimes committed before 1999 can choose between electrocution and lethal injection, which is the state's default method of execution.
Crucifixion? Good....Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next....
He’s been on death row 30 years or so.
Old Sparky needs to be fired up more promptly. This vermin has been living way too long. Time to send hm to his father the devil.
old sparky should be going so often that it looks like Centralia, Pennsylvania aroudn it- (the place that has been burning underground for 50 years now)
“He’s been on death row 30 years or so.”
The Supremes guaranteed Law Libraries in prisons.
How’d that work out?
I don’t guess any riots are scheduled??
Ride the lightning Mr.Smith
So, the article mentions that the fingerprint ID could be incorrect, or unreliable, and thay his lawyers insist it be addressed. I imagine his lawyers should have appealed in the last thirty years.
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