The Tennessee man faces the execution of killing his wife and her 2 sons star-news.press/wp

Nashville, Tenn. – Tennessee killed his wife and her two teenage son was planned on Thursday morning, three years after he saved him Back to last minute.

Oscar Smith, 75, he was to receive a deadly injection of barbite Pentobarbital at 10:10, Smith has always claimed that he was innocent, and In an interview With the corresponding newspapers, he recently wanted to talk primarily about the ways they felt the court system failed.

He was convicted of mortal stab and shooting in a loved woman, Judith Smith, 13-year-old Jason Burnett in his Nashville, Tennessee, sentenced to the death of the county jury in July 1990. for murders.

2022. A Judge for the Criminal Court Davidson County Denied requests to reopen his case Despite some new evidence that the DNA of an unknown person was on one of the murder weapons. The referee wrote that it was Evidence of Smith’s guilt He was irresistible and the DNA evidence did not tip over the scales in his favor.

Tennessee execution are on hold for five years, first because of Covid-19, and then because of wrong by Tennessee correction department.

Smith came in a few minutes from the execution 2022. years before he saved him from the republic from the Republic of Govje. Bill Lee. Later, it proved to be charged with the deadly medications that would be used on it was not properly tested. Subsequently Investigation of the year It has emerged with numerous other problems with Tennessee execution.

The correction department has issued new guidelines for execution in December. The New Enforcement Manual It contains only one page on deadly injection chemicals without special directions for drug testing. It also removes the request that medications come from the licensed pharmacist. Smith’s lawyer, Amy Harwell, characterized him in this way: “As if caught being violated their rules, Tdoc decided,” Let’s just have the rules. “

The new protocols are the subject of the lawsuit submitted to Smith and other prisoners of mortal rows. The trial in that case is set for the next January.