A man sentenced to death for the 1989 murders of his wife and her two sons was executed today in Tennessee, the US state's prison service announced.
The execution of Oscar Smith (75) is the third in the United States (US) this week. The two executions were carried out on Tuesday in Indiana and Texas, carried out by lethal injection.
Smith was convicted of the 1989 shooting and stabbing deaths of his wife, Judy Smith, and her two sons, Chad and Jason Barnett.
It is the first execution in Tennessee since February 2020.
Since the beginning of the year, 19 convicts have been executed in the US, of which 15 were executed by lethal injection, two by nitrogen inhalation, and two by shooting.
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states.
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