The oldest inmate on death row had some fiery words for Tennessee's governor as he was executed for murdering his estranged wife and her teenage sons.
Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was killed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of Judith Smith and her sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.
Smith has always maintained his innocence in the grisly murders, and as he lay strapped to a gurney at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville he claimed the justice system was broken.
He noted that Gov. Bill Lee - who made a last minute decision to stop Smith's execution in 2022 - 'has the last word' on allowing executions to continue.
'He's a damned fool if he doesn't realize we've got [innocent] men at Riverbend waiting to die,' the 75-year-old said in his three-minute final statement, according to the Nashville Banner.
