Oldest Death Row inmate’s execution on hold
AMERICA’S oldest Death Row inmate had his execution stayed at the eleventh hour.
Oscar Smith was due to be killed on Thursday in Tennessee. The 72-year-old had already had his last meal of a double bacon cheeseburger and apple pie when governor Bill Lee granted a temporary reprieve. He said: “Due to an oversight in preparation for lethal injection, the scheduled execution of Oscar Smith will not move forward tonight.”
Smith, who in 1989 killed his estranged wife and her two teenage sons, had been scheduled to die at a Nashville prison.
His reprieve lasts until June. Smith became death row’s oldest inmate after Texas executed Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, on Thursday.