Tennessee's Republican governor temporarily called off what would have been the state’s first execution since the start of the coronavirus pandemic citing an “oversight” in the state’s lethal injection preparation.
's Republican governor temporarily called off what would have been the state’s first execution since the start of the coronavirus pandemic citing an"oversight" in the state’s lethal injection preparation.
File-This Nov. 10, 2020, file photo shows Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks with reporters in Nashville, Tenn.. Smith had been scheduled to receive a three-drug injection only a short while later at a Nashville maximum security prison. This undated photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows inmate Oscar Smith. Tennessee's governor said Tuesday, April 19, 2022, that he will not intervene in the scheduled execution later this week of Smith, convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting his estranged wife and her sons decades ago. Attorneys for the 72-year-old asked Republican Gov. Bill Lee for clemency, citing problems with the jury in his 1990 trial.
Demonstrator Brad Davis waits to enter the grounds of Riverbend Maximum Security Institution before the scheduled execution of inmate Oscar Smith Thursday, April 21, 2022.
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