A reprieve was Smith's last legal avenue to avoid execution. The Tennessee Department of Correction served Smith his last meal at 5:30 p.m. May 21, according to spokesperson Dorinda Carter.

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater tots ...

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Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

Nebraska’s prison system uses the controversial — and sometimes deadly — practice of double bunking inmates to accommodate ...