Nearly three and a half decades after receiving the death penalty for a triple murder that occurred in 1989, a Robertson County man became the first inmate to be executed by the state of Tennessee in five years.
On Thursday, May 22, 75-year-old Oscar Franklin Smith, a death row inmate from Robertson County, died from an administered dose of the fatal drug pentobarbital at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
Smith was put to death for the murders of his estranged wife, 35-year-old Judith Robirds Smith, and her two teenage sons, 16-year-old Chad Burnett and 13-year-old Jason Burnett, that occurred in their home on Oct. 1, 1989 in Nashville…