Tennessee Mann looks for the execution because he killed his wife and 2 sons

Nashville, Tenn. – A man from Tennessee, who killed his wife and two youthful sons, was to be executed on Thursday morning, three years after he was saved by a last minute postponement.

The 75 -year -old Oscar Smith was supposed to receive a fatal injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at 10:10 a.m., who always claimed Smith as innocently, and in an interview with the Associated Press, he recently wanted to discuss primarily how he believed that the court system failed.

He was convicted because he fatally grasped and shot his alienated wife Judith Smith, 13-year-old Jason Burnett and 16-year-old Chad Burnett in her home in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 1, 1989. He was sentenced to death in July 1990 by a jury of Davidson County.

In 2022, a criminal judge in Davidson County leaned the request to reopen his case, despite new evidence that the DNA was on one of the murder weapons. The judge wrote that the evidence of Smith's guilt was overwhelming and the DNA evidence did not tip the scale in his favor.

Tennessee executions have been in the queue for five years, first due to Covid-19 and then due to missteps by the Correction Department Tennessee.

Smith came in 2022 within minutes after the execution before being saved by a surprising postponement by the Republican governor Bill Lee. It later turned out that the fatal medication that should be used on it had not been properly tested. A subsequent one -year investigation resulted in numerous other problems with Tennessee executions.

The correction department published new guidelines for executions in December. The new execution manual contains only one single page on the fatal injection chemicals without specific directions for testing the medicines. The requirement is also eliminated that the medication comes from a licensed pharmacist. Smith's lawyer Amy Harwell marked it like this: “It is as if Tdoc, after they had violated their own rules, decided” just have no rules “.”

The new protocols are the subject of a complaint submitted by Smith and other inmates of the death line. In this case, an attempt will be set for next January.