TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Jan 16, 2020

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday scheduled execution dates for two death row inmates, the Tennessean reports. Oscar Franklin Smith, who was convicted of murdering three people in 1989, will be put to death on June 4. Harold Wayne Nichols, convicted of a 1988 rape and murder, now has an execution date of Aug. 4. Death row inmate Nicholas Todd Sutton already has an execution date set for Feb. 20 and the state attorney general has filed pending execution requests for seven additional inmates. Since resuming capital punishment in August 2018, Tennessee has executed six death row inmates.