The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years.. A judge has temporarily called off one ...

That execution method is the state’s preferred means. In early April, Smith and death row inmate Byron Black asked Gov. Bill Lee for a reprieve on death row executions because of the state's ...

Ritchie's is the second execution after Indiana's $900,000 purchase of pentobarbital in 2024 made the death penalty possible for the first time in 15 years. Joseph Corcoran, the first man executed ...

A federal judge denied a Mississippi inmate's request to halt his execution scheduled for next week. The inmate, Richard Jordan, is challenging the state's three-drug execution protocol.

Oscar Franklin Smith was moved to death watch, a two-day period of 24-hour observation, before his planned execution. News Sports Counties Business Music Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.