Syndication: The Indianapolis Star
(Nashville, TN) — The state of Tennessee is set to carry out an execution on Thursday. Oscar Franklin Smith is slated to die for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife and her two sons. Officials say he’s chosen hot dogs, tater tots and an apple pie with vanilla ice cream for his final meal before he becomes the first inmate to die under the state’s new single-drug execution protocol. Smith was hours away from execution in 2022 when Governor Bill Lee delayed it due to an issue with the injection.
If all goes as planned come Thursday, the 75-year-old Smith will die by lethal injection inside Nashville’s Riverbend Maximum Security Institution at 10 a.m.
There are 45 inmates on Tennessee’s death row right now. Those prisoners are allowed to choose how they die with either the electric chair or lethal injection.
