I Will Not Pray For Oscar Franklin Smith, May He Rot In Hell

[Sugar Cookie]

Oscar Franklin Smith is scheduled to be executed at 7:10 pm local time, on Thursday, April 21, 2022. Seventy-two-year-old Oscar is convicted of murdering his estranged wife, 35-year-old Judy Robirds Smith, and her two sons, 13-year-old Jason Burnett and 16-year-old Chad Burnett on October 1, 1989, in Nashville, Tennessee. Oscar has spent the last 20 years on Tennessee’s death row.

On October 1, 1989, around 11:20 pm, the police in Tennessee received an emergency call from the home of Judy Smith. Police officers arrived at her home approximately five minutes later. They were unable to see or hear anything unusual. A knock to the front door went unanswered, and police assumed it was a false call.

The next afternoon, the bodies of Judy Smith and her two sons, Jason and Chad, were found dead inside the home. Judy was the estranged wife of Oscar, and Jason and Chad were Oscar’s step-sons. A medical examiner determined that they had died at least 12 hours before their bodies were found.

Oscar was picked up by the police later that day. Oscar never asked why he was being questioned. He referred to his wife in the past tense, before being told about her death. During his interview with the police, Oscar showed no emotion and had abrasions on his hand, elbow, back, and shoulder blade.

During Oscar’s trial, the initial emergency call was enhanced and Judy can be heard shouting “Frank, no. God, help me!” before the call abruptly ends. Additionally, the police found a bloody handprint on the sheet next to Judy’s body. The handprint was later identified as matching Oscar’s handprint, with two missing middle fingers. Oscar had also recently taken out life insurance policies on Judy, Jason, and Chad. Finally, Oscar had, before the murders, made several, repeated threats to kill and commit other acts of violence against the victims, including asking a coworker to murder Judy, Chad, and Jason, and offering to pay them.

Please pray for peace for the family of Judy, Chad, and Jason. Please pray for strength for the family of Oscar. Pray that if Oscar is innocent, lacks the competency to be executed, or should not be executed for any other reason, that evidence will be provided before his execution. Pray that Oscar may come to find peace through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Oscar Smith Given New Tennessee Execution Date of May 22, 2025 – The Forgiveness Foundation

Tennessee gave Oscar Smith an execution date of April 21, 2022, for murdering Judy Smith, and her two teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.

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[BuffettGirl]

It's the callousness of taking out the life insurance that gets me...

 

[Sevens My Charm]

The body of Chad was found lying face up on the kitchen floor. The room was a wreck; the phone had been ripped off the wall and large quantities of blood were on the floor and wall. An awl, a tool similar to an ice pick and often used in leatherworking, was found in the room. Chad had been shot three times: in the right shoulder, the upper chest, and on the inside left eyebrow. The last two wounds were contact wounds and had been fatal. Chad had also been stabbed several times in his chest, back and abdomen with a sharp, needle-like weapon (such as an ice pick or awl) and with a knife. His neck had been slashed, and there were defensive wounds on his hands. All of his injuries had occurred before death.

Judy Smith’s body was found lying on its back on a bed in the front bedroom. There was blood splattered on the panelled wall next to the bed. She had been shot in the left arm and the neck. The latter wound, caused by a gun fired from a range within two feet, had severed her spinal cord and produced instant paralysis, rapid unconsciousness and death. Shortly after death, her neck had been slashed; and, like Chad, she had been stabbed with a knife and a weapon resembling an awl or ice pick. The medical examiner opined that both Judy and Chad had died from multiple gunshot and stab wounds.

The body of Jason, Judy’s youngest son, was discovered lying on its left side on the floor at the foot of the bed on which his mother lay. He had not been shot. There were numerous defensive wounds on his hands. His neck had been slashed, and he had been stabbed in the chest and abdomen. Two of the wounds to the abdomen had been fatal because they had cut major veins. His small bowel protruded from his body through these wounds. All of Jason’s injuries had occurred before death. The medical examiner testified that Jason had bled to death over a period of several minutes as a result of the multiple stab wounds.

Execution Alert: Oscar Franklin Smith set to be executed this week for the murders of his estranged wife, Judy, and her 2 sons

From Smith’s 1993 appeal: It appears that these tragic, brutal and bizarre murders occurred at approximately 11:20 p.m. on Sunday, October 1, 1989, when the Metropolitan Nashville Police Depa…

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[Kitsune Faye]

May you rot in hell, evil Angry Grandpa.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Sometime last Thursday, two weeks before his scheduled execution, Oscar Smith was moved away from the other men on death row and into almost complete isolation. Until he is moved again, to a small cell near the execution chamber, his only human interactions will be with his legal team, a spiritual advisor and the prison staff assigned to monitor him around the clock and record all of his activities.

He has been on death watch before. In April 2022, he came within around an hour of his execution before learning, while taking a last communion, that he’d received a last-minute reprieve. But three years later, under Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol, the liminal period between life on death row and execution has been stretched.

“Now, it’s just two weeks of being reminded every second of every day that the state is going to kill you,” one of Smith’s attorneys, Nashville-based supervisory assistant federal public defender Kelley Henry, told the Banner. “Just watching the hours tick down.”

As written, the protocol also further isolates the condemned person in the 12 hours before an execution, allowing no phone calls or visits except for those from the person’s attorney. The state agreed this week to some religious accommodations that will enable a minister to be with Smith in his final hours and minutes.

‘It Feels Retaliatory’​

Smith has been on death row for nearly 35 years, since a Nashville jury sentenced him to death for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judy Smith, and her two sons, Chad and Jason Burnett. They were found shot and stabbed to death in a Woodbine home. Smith testified at his trial that he had nothing to do with the killings and has maintained his innocence ever since. His attorneys have argued in recent years that his conviction was “based on an impossible prosecution theory that conflicts with the physical evidence.” But courts have upheld his conviction and death sentence, and he has exhausted his appeals. If his execution goes ahead as scheduled on May 22, it will be the first carried out in Tennessee in more than five years.

During the historic spree of seven executions Tennessee carried out between Aug. 9, 2018, and Feb. 20, 2020, the men on death row had developed a ritual of sorts before one among them was taken to death watch. Often on Monday nights, the men would gather to say goodbye, share a final meal and spend some time with outside visitors. The new protocol has changed all that for reasons that remain unclear. In response to a question about the reasoning behind the changes, TDOC spokesperson Dorinda Carter said the protocols had been revised “to ensure lawful and effective procedures are followed in carrying out death sentences.”

“There’s never been a problem in the two weeks up to an execution date, and there’s never been a problem on death watch itself,” Henry said. “It feels retaliatory.”


The two-week isolation and observation period, Henry said, is “its own form of torture” and “completely unnecessary.”

The Rev. Dr. Kevin Riggs, pastor at Franklin Community Church and a spiritual adviser to several men on death row, told the Banner the state’s new protocols felt gratuitous.

“I know people will say, ‘Well he took some people’s lives and their family members didn’t get a chance to tell them bye either.’” he said. “But our justice system is not based on [treating] people the way they treated someone else. We’re not supposed to lower ourselves to the same level as someone who’s committed a crime. We’re supposed to be better than that.”

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Oscar Smith's Isolation Ahead of Execution in Tennessee - Nashville Banner

Oscar Smith, on death row for nearly 35 years, is facing isolation before his scheduled execution in Tennessee. He is part of a challenge to the new protocol.

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[BuffettGirl]

Meh, they signed up for this the minute they committed murder...

 

[Danaf]

Oscar Smith Given New Tennessee Execution Date of May 22, 2025 – The Forgiveness Foundation

Tennessee gave Oscar Smith an execution date of April 21, 2022, for murdering Judy Smith, and her two teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.

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Bye-bye

 

[Sugar Cookie]

May 22, 2025

Oscar Franklin Smith was executed by the state Thursday morning, nearly 35 years after a Nashville jury convicted him for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judy Smith, and her two teenage sons, Chad and Jason Burnett. His execution by lethal injection marks the return of Tennessee’s death penalty after more than five years.

It was also the first to be carried out with pentobarbital under the state’s new single-drug lethal injection protocol. Media witnesses described Smith’s face turning a bluish purple but said he otherwise did not show outward signs of distress.

In a long final statement, he said the criminal justice system is broken and criticized Gov. Bill Lee for allowing executions to proceed anyway, noting that “he has the last word.”

“He’s a damned fool if he doesn’t realize we’ve got [innocent] men at Riverbend waiting to die,” Smith said. “I’m not the first and I won’t be the last.”

An agreement with state officials allowed Smith’s spiritual adviser, Rev. Monica Coakley, to be present in the execution chamber with him. She performed a final liturgy, reading from scripture and singing songs, including “I’ll Fly Away.” With some of his final words, Smith maintained his innocence as he has for decades, saying faintly, “I didn’t kill her.”

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Tennessee executes Oscar Smith for 1989 triple murder - Nashville Banner

Tennessee executes Oscar Franklin Smith, marking the return of the state's death penalty after nearly five years.

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HE WAS NOT THE FIRST OR THE LAST BECAUSE HE WAS NOT AN INNOCENT MAN!