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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Tennessee death row inmate seeks to halt execution next week over DNA evidence

Tennessee Department of Corrections

A Tennessee death row inmate asked the state Supreme Court on Thursday to vacate his execution date so that an appeals court could review new evidence in his case.

Oscar Smith, 71, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on 21 April. He was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons Jason and Chad Burnett, 13 and 16, at their Nashville home on 1 October 1989.

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