In the US state of Tennessee on Thursday They executed a 75-year-old man convicted of death for the murder of his wife and her two sons of 1989. Oscar Smith was the third executed person in the United States this week and all three executions were done by a fatal injectionwrites TASR, according to the AFP report and USA Today.
Smith was declared dead at 10.47 local time (17.47 CEST) in Riverbend prison in Nashville. In 1989 fatally shot and stabbed his wife Judy Smith’s (35) with whom they lived separately, andEj two sons of chada (16) a Jason (13) Burnetts.
His wife’s siblings in an official statement expressed the grief from this tragedy. “Through our broken heart we commemorate The devastating consequences of domestic violence … This tragedy is not just a personal loss – it is part of a much bigger problem, which affects countless families throughout our society, ”they said.
Smith refused the accusationsbut the police and the prosecutors considered the evidence against it as overwhelming. According to them, it has been associated with several violent actions in the past. Witnesses of executions said that Smith lasted on his innocence until the last minute.
In the United States this year has been carried out 19 executions – 15 by fatal injection, two shooting and two inhalation of nitrogen. The death penalty was abolished in 23 of the 50 US states. President Donald Trump is his advocate and after recurring to office He called for the extension of its use “for the worst crimes”.
