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Tennessee governor Bill Lee calls off execution of Oscar Smith, state's oldest death row inmate
CBS News ^ | APRIL 21, 2022

Posted on 04/21/2022 9:40:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Tennessee's governor on Thursday called off what was to have been the state's first execution since the start of the pandemic, granting a temporary reprieve to the oldest inmate on death row for what was called an "oversight" in preparations for the lethal injection.

Republican Gov. Bill Lee didn't elaborate on what issue forced the surprise 11th-hour stop to the planned execution of 72-year-old Oscar Smith. The inmate was to have received a three-drug injection only a short while later in the evening at a Nashville maximum security prison.

"Due to an oversight in preparation for lethal injection, the scheduled execution of Oscar Smith will not move forward tonight. I am granting a temporary reprieve while we address Tennessee Department of Correction protocol," Lee said in a statement on Thursday evening. "Further details will be released when they are available."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: deathrow; execution

1 posted on 04/21/2022 9:40:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

related to mike lee?


2 posted on 04/21/2022 9:43:19 PM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Bob434

No.


3 posted on 04/21/2022 9:45:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

k


4 posted on 04/21/2022 9:54:47 PM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: nickcarraway

Rope. Rafters.


5 posted on 04/21/2022 10:18:22 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Bob434
If he'd killed a relative of a federal judge, they'd had snuffed him 25 years ago.

As it was, he was smart enough to kill his peasant estranged wife and her peasant boys.

6 posted on 04/21/2022 10:20:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: nickcarraway

Nobody hears a peep out of Mike Lee since before Covid.
This is what he stands on a soapbox about?


7 posted on 04/21/2022 10:27:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway

He will be released next week for good behavior. Evil rules now.


8 posted on 04/21/2022 10:30:52 PM PDT by sport
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To: lee martell

This has nothing to do with Mike Lee.


9 posted on 04/21/2022 10:38:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I left off my (sarcasm) note. Mi faulta!


10 posted on 04/21/2022 10:48:57 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway

More background on the murderer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Franklin_Smith


11 posted on 04/21/2022 11:15:11 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: nickcarraway
"Due to an oversight in preparation for lethal injection..."

Go down to the corner of the local MLK Blvd. and buy a quarter ounce of fentanyl. It'll work just fine.

12 posted on 04/21/2022 11:30:50 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: nickcarraway

Why don’t they execute by exsanguination?


13 posted on 04/22/2022 2:04:00 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: lee martell

“Nobody hears a peep out of Mike Lee since before Covid.
This is what he stands on a soapbox about?”

Why am I not surprised that Mike Lee is mixed up in this.


14 posted on 04/22/2022 5:29:38 AM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our scho nice Nice ols to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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