Executions have resumed in Tennessee after a five-year hiatus. Death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was killed by ...

Christa Pike, then 18, tortured and killed another young woman. In 2024, Pike was removed from de facto solitary confinement.

A Davidson County jury sentenced him to death the following year. Some relatives of Smith’s victims do plan to attend the execution, Tennessee Department of Correction spokesperson Dorinda ...