Tennessee death row inmate to be executed despite new DNA evidence of unidentified person on murder weapon

Tennessee Department of Correction

An inmate on death row in Tennessee is just hours away from being executed after the governor refused to step in despite new DNA evidence raising doubts over the man’s guilt.

Oscar Smith, 72, will be put to death by lethal injection on Thursday over the triple murders of his estranged wife Judith Smith and her two teenage sons Jason and Chad Burnett back in 1989.