Captain remembers the crime against Oscar Smith Execution

Nashville, Tenn. (WZTV) – Tennessee is preparing to carry out his first execution for more than five years.

Oscar Franklin Smith, who was convicted in a triple murder of 1989, is to be killed by fatal injection on Thursday morning, decades after what the investigators call one of the most brutal crimes in the history of Nashville.

Smith was convicted of having killed his alienated wife Judy Smith and her two youthful sons Chad and Jason Burnett in their house in the Lutie Street. Prosecutors said he used three different weapons in the attack: a weapon, a knife and an air.

FOX 17 News came together with the retired police chief of Hendersonville, Mickey Miller, who worked for Metro Nashville's police department in 1989 and directed the investigation as a captain of the unity of personal crimes.

“It was probably one of the bloodiest crime scenes we had,” said Miller. “Only the wildness, two young boys and her mother with a weapon, a knife and AWL were a terrible crime scene.”

According to Miller, the investigators arrived after a relative discovered the bodies on October 2, 1989. He said that the evidence would have quickly pointed out Smith, including a bloody palm pressure in which two fingers were missing, the same finger was missing, and a desperate 911 call made the night of murders.

The 16-year-old Chad Burnett was heard in this call, who tried to scream the family's address when the phone was torn out of the wall. After he was tidy, Miller said how the investigators also heard chad screaming: “No frank, no!”-A name Oscar “Franklin” Smith supposedly passed.

“In my book he was a bad guy,” said Miller. “Even when you talked to him, it was as if there was nothing in him.”

Despite years of appeals and Smith, who maintain his innocence, Miller undoubtedly did the judicial system correctly.

“Absolutely,” he said. “There is no question at all.”

If at all, Miller believes that the Smith's punishment could have been punished earlier.

“Citizens shouldn't have to wait 30 years or 20 years,” said Miller, “they should have to pay the punishment within two years after the conviction.”

Smith's lawyers have urged new DNA tests, and his legal team has argued that the new fatal injection protocols from Tennessee are unconstitutional, and claims that the medication may be illegally collected and cause painful pain.

Nevertheless, governor Bill Lee announced this week that he would not grant mercy and explained:

“After the targeted examination of Oscar Franklin Smith's application for Gnüse and after a thorough review of the case, I retain the judgment of the state of Tennessee and not to intervene.”

Smith will be the first person to be executed in Tennessee since 2020 after a break has checked the state's death penalty.

For his last meal, Smith asked a hot dog, taters, apple pie and vanilla ice cream.

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