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Here are the people who are planned for the execution in Tennesses's death cell

Here are the people who are planned for the execution in Tennesses's death cell

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After five years without execution, the state found in the death cell for four people in 2025.

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Tennessee's Supreme Court determined the execution data for four people in the death cell in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution on May 22nd was the first in five years.

A judge temporarily derived the execution of a man for this year unless his lawsuit concludes before his execution date.

All four people whose execution data had already been determined had execution dates before governor Bill Lee 2022 had the main official of the main powers. It was later found that the state did not follow its own fatal injection protocol. The break was lifted in December when the Correction Department of Tennessee announced that it had completed a new lethal injection protocol.

Tennessee currently has 43 men and a woman in the death cell. Here is a closer look at the four cases that are set for the execution this year:

Oscar Franklin Smith: Mayor May 22nd

The state of Tennessee executed Oscar Franklin Smith (75) on May 22nd by a fatal dose of Pentobarbital.

Smith was to be executed in 2022, but governor Bill Lee called for temporary reparation in the 11th hour to check the fatal injection protocol of the state. In a state -relaxed report, it was later found that the correction officers had not followed their own minutes to test fatal injection medication since 2018.

Smith was sentenced in 1989 for murder of the first degree murder of murders in Nashville against his alienated wife Judith Robirds Smith (35) and her sons Chad Burnett (16) and Jason Burnett (13).

Smith, a former machineist from Robertson County, shot Robirds Smith's throat and stabbed her several times. He shot her eldest son and stabbed her younger son in his neck and stomach.

Byron Lewis Black: Exercise date August 5th

Black, 69, shot his girlfriend Angela Clay (29) and her daughters Latoya (9) and Lakesha (6) in their house in Nashville 1987.

The prosecutors said Black was in jealous anger when he committed the murders. He was set to execute in 2022 before the governor took a break for the death penalty.

However, Black's case could see more delays because his lawyers have argued for a long time that he is severely hindered.

In 2022, Davidson County, Glenn Funk, explained in intellectually disabled and said that his death sentence should be converted. Tennessee's Court of Appeal later rejected Black's application for hearing on his claim to intellectual disability.

Bennie Clay, the father of Angela's both daughters, said that Black deserves to pay for his crimes.

“My children, they were babies,” said Bennie Clay in an interview. “They were smart, they would be something. They never had the chance.”

Donald Ray Middlebrooks: Preliminary explanations

While the Supreme Court of Tennessee stated an appointment for Middlebrooks on September 24, a federal judge ordered on April 1 that this was delayed if his lawsuit was not completed. Middlebrooks questions the constitutionality of the state's new execution protocol.

The 62-year-old Middlebrooks was convicted in 1987 for torture and murder of 14-year-old Kerrick Majors, whose body was found in a dry stream bed in East Nashville. Prosecutors said that the killing was racist because the majors were black.

Middlebrooks, who was 24 years old at the time, and his wife Tammy Middlebrooks (17) and a friend Roger Brewington (16) pursued major by a temporary flea market in Nashville and dragged him into a forest area, where he was tortured for a few hours. The white defendants also used racist legs towards Majors, the prosecutors said.

Brewington was brought to trial as an adult and received successive life penalty. Tammy Middlebrooks was convicted of life in prison.

The Supreme Court of Tennessee initially undone Middlebrook's death sentence in 1992 and he received a second death sentence in Nashville.

Harold Wayne Nichols: December 11

In 1988 the 64-year-old Nichols was guilty of raping the rape and murder of the 21-year-old student of 21-year-old Chattanooga College.

Nichols said he wanted to die on the electric chair when his execution progresses. Court files say that he hit her on his head with a board and die a blunt force trauma a day later. A jury sentenced him to death for the killing.

He was planned for the execution in August 2020 before the governor hired the death penalty due to the pandemic and again in 2022, but this execution was canceled after Lee's announcement.

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