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In May 2025, five inmates on death row across the United States were executed by lethal injection, each case marking a brutal chapter in the history of the American prison system and capital punishment. This video covers every one of those executions: their final meals, last words, the crimes they committed, and the victims who never got a second chance.
may 2025 was a busy month on deathrow.
five inmates were executed in less than 30 days.
five names , five stories,five endings.
some died in silence , others used their finale breath to point fingers.
theres was remorse, anger , difference and controversey.
protestes,issues with lethal injection drugs , claims of innocence and even last minute statements no one saw coming.
in this story ,we’ll go through every execution carried out in the united states during may,2025 one by one ,who they were , what crimes they committed,what they said before dying , and how they faced their final their sentence.
jeffrey hutchinson was executed on may 1st,2025 in the stated of florida.
he died by lethal injection after spending more than two decades on deat hrow.
but his story didn’t begin in a prison cell.
it began inside a house that look like any other until it became the scene of a massacre.
it was a quiet night in crestview, florida.
warm air ,still streets ,and homes lined up in silence.
inside one of them, jeffrey , a gulf war veteran , lived with his partner renee flaherty and her three children.jeffrey, age nine , amanda , age seven, and little logan ,just for.
something happened that night, a fight , a snap, a breaking point.
at 11:07 p.m. , a chilling 911 call came in.
a man’s shaky voice, almost detached,said just one sentence.
i just shoot my family”
police arrived minutes later, they found hutchinson in the garage , still holding the phone, he didn’t try to run, he didn’tsay a word.
inside the house ,the bodies of renee and the three children were found, all killed by shotgun blasts .
the weapon ,a 12- gauge mossberg ,was lying in the kitchen .
gunshot residue was found on hutchinson’s hands,tissue from one of the victims was on his clothes.
at trial , hutchinson claimed two masked broke into the home and committed the murders.
but there were no signs of forced entry, no witnesses,no footprints, only him, the shotgun, and that 911 call.
in 2001, he was convicted on four counts of firstdegree murder.
he reseived three death sentences for the children and life in prison for renee.
over the years,he claimed to suffer from mental illnesses linked to his military service;
PTSD, golf war syndrome,he even claimed the government was targeting him for speaking out about the veteran related health issues.
his attorneys filed appeal after appeal , arguing he was mentally unfit for execution.
all were denied.
in april 2025, a judge ruled that hutchinson was fully aware of what was about to happened.
there were no more delays,no more defenses.
on may 1st , 2025 at florida state prison ,he was offered a final meal ,he declined.
no requests, no comments , just silence.
at 8:10 p.m. , he was escortedto the execution chamber , he wore beighe uniform, he said nothing.
they laid him on the gurnie and strapped him down.
in the viewing room ,three witnesses sat in silence ,at 8 :14 , a prisoner official asked if he had any final words, he said nothing , just a faint mumble, too quiet to understand.
at 1:15 the drugs were administered, at 8:22 p.m he was pronounced dead.
jeffrey hutchinson died without asking for forgiveness,without admitting guilt,and without saying a single final word and his story finally came to an end .
moving on to the next execution carried out 14 days later..
glenn edward rogers ,better known as the kasanova killer , has just been executed at florida state prison by lethal injection.
his death marks the end of a story defined by deceit,superficial charm and a string of murders that left a trail of blood across several US states, he was 62 years old and had spent nearly three decades on death row.
he was sentenced to death for the murder of tina marie cribs , a woman he met at a bar and with whom he spent her final hours alive in a tampa motel .
but the crime for which he was convicted was not the only one he confessed to.
during interrogations, glenn claimed to have killed more than 70 people, allthough that number could never be verified.
among his most chilling confessions, he even stated that he was the real killer of nicole brown simpson and ron goldman,the victims in the infamous OJ simpson case.
he earned the nickname the kasanova killer for his seductive charm,he was handsome ,polite, and knew exactly what to say to gain the trust of lonely women.
but behind that charming smile hid a violent,impulsive ,and dangerous psychopath,this is the full account of his crimes,his capture,and his final hours before execution.
like you’ve never heard it before.
it all began on the night of november 5 , 1995 at a bar called showtown USA.
located in Gibson, florida, a small place with dim light ‘s and country music,frequented by locals, carneval workers , and side show performers .
that night , between beers and quiet conversation,tina marie cribs who was at the bar with friends, met glenn rogers.
he seemed charming,blond , lighteyed, with a calm smile,he approached naturally, ordered her a beer, and started talking as if they’d known each other for years.
no one at the bar noticed anything unusual, tina seemed confortable and and he was attentive and polite, he offered her to give her ride home and she agreed.
but glenn didn’t take her home,instead ,he drove her to a roadside motel, the Tampa 8 inn.
and persuaded her to share a room with him.
no one knows exactly what happened in the hours that followed.
the morning of november 7th, 1995,two days after their meeting at the bar , the housekeeping staff at the tampa 8 inn approached room 119 aftr noticing it hadn’t been vacated.
they knocked on the door, no response.
when they entered , the silence was heavy,everything appeared oddly tidy until they saw the bathtub.
tina marie’s body was partially submerged in the water, lying face up in the tub.
she was clothed,wearing a damp t-shirt,underwear ,and socks.
on the bathroom floor,authorities found a pile of wet clothes and bloodstained towels.
investigators determined that cribs had been stabbed to death and showed signs of defensive wounds.
she had two clean , deep stab wounds,precise and deliberate .
forensic evidence revealeda laceration on her left wrists, considered a defensive injury , as well as multiple bruises and abrasions on her torso, suggesting that she fought for her life in the moments before her death .
it was also established that she remained conscious during the attack and the both wounds were inflicted with significant force and intent.
including a 90 degree twists of the knife while it was still inside her body ,causing extreme and prolonged pain before her death.
after that horrific act,he locked the door from the inside, and sliding the deadbolt and slipped out through the bathroom window,leaving behind only a faint mark on the shower curtain.
though tina’s body was in the bathtub,her purse was missing, and importantly, so was her car.
it didn’t take police long to understand what had happened.
witnesses described a tall blond man with a charming smile and a southern vibe.
the name glenn was mentioned by one of the victim’s friends who had heard him introduce himself that night.
with that lead, an interstate alert was issued for tina marie cribs white ford fetival.
meanwhile, glenn rogers was already heading north,crossing several states without leaving a trace.
he had mastered the art of disappearing.
he stayed in roadside motel, paid in cash, and used different names .
he knew how to move without being tracked.
it seemed like he had done this before.
on november 13th,just 6 days after the murder,glenn was arrested in richmond , kentucky after a high- speed chase.
he was still driving thina’s car.
some say he had a smile on his face, as if he had already calculated that he would be caught , as if prison was just another part of the game.
during questioning, he didn’t tale long to start talking.
but what he said left detectives frozen because glenn rogers didn’t just confess to killing tina.
he said he had killed many more women in different states, dozens , maybe over 70.
and among those names ,he slipped in two that no one expected to hear ,nicole brown simpson and ron goldman but that part was just beginning.
when rogers was arrested in kentucky , the police didn’t expect to find the monster he claimed to be and what he said turned a local case into an interstate nightmare.
he said this wasn’t the first he had killed or the second or the third.
he claimed to have murdered women in louisiana,mississippi, ohio , california, and other states.
he mentioned bodies that had never been found,names the press had neverheard , and methods that varied with each case,as if murder to him was a kind of macob art form.
at first ,police was skeptical.
another compulsive liar, a killer desperate for fame but the details were too precise.
he knew where certain unsolved murders had accured.he remembered dates,clothing colors , specific wounds .some of it matched cold casessitting in police .files
one of the most attention -grabbing cases was the murder of linda price, a woman from jackson, mississippi, whom rogers met while working as a painter .
he began a relationship with her and shortly after linda was found brutally stabbed and left in her own home, he was also linked to the death of sandra gallagher in california whose car was set on fire with her inside.
rogers had been seen with her days before the crime.
but the most distubing part came later during a phone call from prison to his brother clay .
glenn hinted at having been involved in the murders of nicole brown simpson and ron goldman.
the victims in the infamous OJ simpson case.
on the night of june 12th, 1994,nicole brown simpson and her friend ron goldman were brutally murdered outside nicole’s residence in brentwood,los angeles.
both were stabbed multiple times and their bodies were discovered at the entrance of the house.
nicole had been a victim of domestic violence during her marriage to OJ simpson, a former NFL star and had previously expressed fear for her safety .
OJ simpson was arrested and charged with the murders, sparking one of the most sensational trials in american history.
the 11 months long process was marked by relentless media coverage, debates around race and celebrity and iconic moments like the infamous glove that didn’t fit.
despite the evidence presented on october 3rd 1995, the jury found simpson not guilty of both murder charges.
however …
in 1997, a civil court found simpson liable for the deaths and ordered him to pay$33,5 million in damages to the victim’s families.
this civil verdict carried no criminal consequences, and simpson never served time for the murders.
the case left an incredible mark on american society, sparking debates about the justice system, the influence of celebrity, and racial tensions.
to this day , the double homicide of nicole brown simpson and ron goldman remains a symbol of controversy and public division.
glenn rogers claimed that nicole had paid him to steal some jewelry and that once inside the house, things spiraled out of control.
he said he killed both victims.
although he was never formally charged with the double murder,his confession revived theories that suggested a third man may have been involved.
experts are divided,some believe rogers made ut all up.others argue he was capable of it.
he had been in los angeles at the time ,and records show he worked in homes around beverly hills.
his own brother publicly stated that he believed glenn was telling the truth, as he explained in a 2012 documentary.
as the years went by,the number of victims attributed to rogers continued to grow,some sources have linked him to more than 70 murders .
although most were never confirmed he often changed his story, sometimes he claimed responsibility,other times he denied it, he played games with police , prosecutors and the media .
as if he knew that no matter what they said ,they would never be able to complete the puzzle.
the truth is…
just days before the murder of tina marie cribbs,he had killed another women,linda price ,later ,after his arrest following the murder of tina marie cribs.
investigators began linking rogers to the linda price case.
during his trial ,evidence was presented connecting him to multiple crimes, including the murder of linda price ,the case of linda price was one of the first in which glenn rogers was identified as a possible serial killer.
allthough he was never convicted of linda’s murder, his involvement in this crime established a pattern that would repeated itself in other states.
continuing chronologically, after his arrest and the accumulation of evidence,glenn rogers was brought to trial for the murder of tina marie cribs.
despite his ambiguous and contradictory confessions,the case against him was solid, physical evidence,eyewitness accounts and his criminal record were presented, leading the jury to find him guilty.
in 1997, rogers was sentenced to death in florida, glenn spent nearly three decades on death row.
during that time, his statement remained unpredictable.
sometimes he confessed to other crimes.
other times,he denied them his game with authorities and media continued,maintaining a shroud of mystery around the true extent ofhis victim count.
over the years , rogers made more shocking confessions from prison.
in addition to the previously mentioned murders , he claied responsibility for other violent crimes and said te had knowledge of unsolved cases in several states.
however , many of these confessions could not be verified, and some experts believe they were attempts at manipulation or bids for attention.
a lettr from attorney general james umeire to the govenor detailed a series of appeals that had been denied over more than two decades.
one of the most recent came in 2021 when the florida supreme court rejected an appeal in which rogers alleged newly discovered evidence of sexual abuse he claims to have suffered in childhood including at the now closed to Ohio center training institute,a juvenile detention center.
rogers stated that the trauma had been repressed until 2019.
his legal team also claimed that rogers suffered from pferia,a condition that could make lethal injection extremely painful and therefore inhuman.
that request was also denied since the other methods of execution,firing squad and lethal gas are not available in florida .
in addition to his conviction in florida,glenn rogers faced another trial that resulted in separate death sentence in california.
this case involved the murder od sandra gallagher.
a mother of three whom rogers had met just weekks before the tina marie cribbs murder.
sandra gallagher was an ordinary woman living with what seemed to be a quiet life until it was abruptly cut short after a fateful encounter in a vanise bar in california.
there , rogers once again used his charm and charisma to quickly earn sandra’s trust.
what seemed to be a fleeting ,harmless relationship turned in to horror.
in 1995, sandra was found dead by strangulation in her own home.
investigators uncovered signs of struggle and violence,suggesting the murder was not a spontaneous act ,but rather a calculated and brutal assault.
rogers was arrested and formally charged with the crime.
during the california trial, the evidence presented,including testimony and physical proof, was enough for the jury to find him guilty of sandra gallagher’s murder.
in 1999, he was sentenced to death a second time.
yeas , a double death sentence,this time in the state of california reinforcing the severity of his crimes and the threat he posed as a serial killer.
finally ,on may 15 ,2025,glenn edward rogers was executed by lethal injection at florida state prison for the murder of tina marie. glenn rogers , 62 received a lethal injection at florida state prison and was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m.
in a final statement,rogers thanked his wife ,who visited him at the prison that same day,according to visitation records.
he also said somewhat ironically that ” we will answer your question soon.” without elaborating.
he also said” president trump:
keep making america great i’m ready to go”
the lethal injection then began and he remained silent throughout the procedure.
his death closed a dark chapter ,but many questions about his life and crimes remain unanswered.
despite his execution,the figure of glenn rogers remains an enigma for investigators and criminology experts .
was he truly responsible for the more then 70 murders he claimed?
how much truth was there in his alleged involvement in the murders of nicole brown simpson and ron goldman?
his story left behind a disturbing legacy,reminding us how hard it is to uncover the truth when a killer manipulates reality.
glenn’s brother,claude rogers,told the tampa bay times;
i said goodby to him,his my brother and i love him,i asked god to guide him on this next journey.”
matthew lee kohnosn was executed by lethal injection on tuesday,may 20th,2025 at the huntsville unit in texas.
he was 49 years old and had spent more than a decade on death row after being convicted of murdering a 76 year old woman.
johnson was the fourth inmate executed in texas so far this year and the 16th in the united states.
one week before his execution, he wrote a letter addressed to the victim’s family.it read;
may 20th,2012
nancy judith harris , a mother of four ,began her day like any other .
the store had just opened at 7:00 a.m in garland, texas and harris who worked alone,expected to spend her day selling coffe ,sodas and snacks.
suddenly, matthew johnson walked into the store intending to commit one of the most crual and inhumane acts a person can carry out.
inside the store was nancy harris , 76 years old, a women well known in the neighborhood for her kidness and dedication.
she was alone as usual preparing the shop for the day when the monster entered, he was holding a plastic bottle.
he had filled it beforehand with a flammable liquid.
johnson approached harris, demanded money, and as she began gathering cash to hand over without waiting , this subhuman creature poured the flammable liquid over her head and torso.
matthew took out his lighter and set her on fire.
security cameras captured johnson walking away calmly while harris engulfed in flames, tried desperately to extinguish the fire using a sink
when she realized she couldn’t, she ran outside, crying for help.
according to testimony,two police officers who saw the blaze and heard harris’s screams used the fire extinguisher to put out the flames.
it’s unclear whether the fire was actually extinguished by the officers or by nearby neighbors and passers by who had also rushed over to help.
what is certain is that someone called emergency services.
when paramedics arrived a shortly afterward, the woman pleaded with them to help her.
nancy was rushed to parkland memorial hospital where doctors confirmed she had second to fourthdegree burns over 40 % of her body.
what already seemed like a tragedy quickly turned into a nightmare for the harris family.
despite the medical team’s best efforts, harris made it clear she did not want to be kept alive if she couldn’t live as she used to.
and just 5 days later, she died from the severity of her injuries.
but before being hospitalized after the brutal attack,nancy harruis was still conscious and managed to give police a detailed description of her attacker.
an african -american man , heavy set with a round face and short hair,thanks to her statement and the officer’s swift response, a manhunt began immediately in the neighborhood.
aproximately 1 hour later, johnson was found in a nearby residential area,he was attempting to enter several properties when police confronted him.
after a brief foot chase, he was arrested ,in his possession were harris’s ring , cash, cigarettes ,and lighters stolen from the store.
he also had burns on his hands, and traces of flammable liquid on his clothes.
during a police interrogations , johnson confesssed to committing the crime , he claimed that he had been drinking and using drugs the night before and that his intention was only to scare harrison into giving him the money.
however, the evidence and witness testimonies presented during the trial made it clear that his actions were deliberate and premeditated.
november 8th, 2013
Dallas county jury found him guilty of capital murder and sentenced him to death, ironically,the date chosen for his execution was may 20th 2025,exactly 13 years after the crime.
it was on may 2oth ,2012 that matthew attacked this woman and on may 20th,2025, he was executed. matthew johnson was executed by the state of texas at the huntsville unit.
since 2011, texas abolished the right to request a special last meal, so he was served the standard prison breakfast.
he was escorted to the execution chamber, the leathal injection process began, with his execution , johnson became the fourth person to put to death in texas in 2025.
the case of benjamin richie
on may 20th,2025, benjamin donnie ritchie was executed by lethal injection at the indiana state prison located in michigan city.
this marked only the second execution in the state since 2009 following a long hiatus due ti the shortage of drugs used in capital punishment.
ritchie, 45, was convicted for the murder of police officer william toney in the year 2000.
despite multiple appeals and requests for clemency,citing mental disorders and brain damage,his execution proceeded as scheduled.
september 29th, 2000.
beach grove , indiana, a 20 year old benjamin ritchie along with two accompllices, stole a white pickup truck from a gas station.
police located the vehicle and begana pursuit.
after a brief chase,ritchie and the others abandoned the truck and fled on foot .
officer william toney chased after ritchie, who when cornered,turned and fired four times, striking toney in the chest outside the protection of his bulletproof vest.
officer toney,just 31 years old, left behind a wife and two small daughters.
ritchie fled the scene,but his freedom didn’t last long,he was arrested the very next day at a friend’s house.
during his trial , the jury found him guilty of murder, autotheft, and unlawful possession of a firearm, and resisting arrest.
the defense argued that ritchie suffered from mental disorders caused by troubled childhood and fetal alcohol exposure.
but the jyry was unmoved.
october 15th, 2002, ritchie was sentence to death.
over the next two decades,he filed numerous appeals claiming innefective legal representation and unagnowledged mental illness during his originsl trial.
in 2025, he requested clemency,expressing remorse for his actions, but both the indiana parole board and the governor denied the request.
the state supreme court set his execution date for may 20th,2025.
benjamin ritchie was executed by lethal injection at the indiana state prison in michigan city,as for protocol,only a few people were allowed to witness the execution.
up to five friends and family members chosen by richie.
the execution began shortly after midnight, and ritchie was pronounced dead at 12:46 a.m.
for his final meal, he chose the tour of italy from olive garden, a selection of italian dishes.
before his death,ritiche chared his last words.
following the execution , mark kosulki,deputy state public defender , released a statement expressing consern over the fairness of ritchie’s sentence.
tonight was the result of prioritizing finality over fairness we continue to believe , as did half of the indiana supreme court,that benjamin’s execution was inappropriate.indiana exececuted a man with profound brain damage and developmental disabilities/ mark kosulki. deputy state public defender in suport of the execution .
govenour mike braun , issued his own statement.
since benjamin ritchie’s conviction in 2002,his case has been heard and reviewed numerous times by both state and federal courts,including the indiana supreme court and the US supreme court,never resulting in an overturned sentence.
ritchie’s final appeal for clemency was met with a unanimous recommendation from the state parole board that his execution proceeded as scheduled.
today , ritchie’s sentence has been carried out as ordered by the court./governor mike braun,
the fraternal order of police ( FOP) also released a statement celebrating the execution:
2 days later …
may 22nd,2025, there was another execution.
oscar frankin smith was executed on may 22nd, 2025 at the riverbend maximum security institution , nashville , tennessee.
75 years old and one of the longest serving inmates on death row in the state.
after more than three decades, and despite maintaining his innocence until the very end , his fate was sealed.
smith became the first person in tennessee to be executed using the state’s new single dose pentobital protocol.
his lawyers presented DNA evidence that could have changed the course of the case ,but the courts remained firm.
october 1st ,1989.
the afternoon in nashville , tennessee,passed without incident in a modest home in the woodbine neighborhood.
judith smith was spending an ordinary day with her teenage sons, chad and jason.
it was a typical sunday, movies on the TV, occasional laughter, the smell of dinner in the air.
nothing suggested that their peace was about to be shattered.
judith had been married to oscar franlin smith since 19895.
she had chad and jason from a previous marriage ,and oscar also had two teenage children of his own . together, they had twins.
but by mid 1989, the relationship had completely fallen apart.
in june,they legally separated, and from that point on,they were locked in a tense legal battle over custody of the twins.
around 5:00 p.m. someone knocked on the door.
judith anwer it.on the other side stood oscar smith, her aranged husband, the same man she had fought with many times before .
who had been violent, and with whom she was in the middle of a bitter divorce.
he didn’t need to say much, the conversation was tense, and it ended in shouting,judith barely had time to turn around before the first shot rang out.
the younger son,came running out of his room when he heard the noice and found himself starring at the scene.
oscar stabbed jason once, twice, three times.
chad the older brother tried to fight back,two more shots were fired , one hit his chest,the other struck his neck .
in less than 5 minutes,oscar franklin smith had wiped out an entire family. – his own family.
judith .chad and jason died at the scene.
the night passed ,and no one noticed .
the next morning ,a 13 year old neighbor, a friend of the boys, walked up to the door, he knocked several tiems,waited , called out , but there was no response.
he walked around the side of the house and peeked through a window what he saw froze him in place. he ran off screaming.
minutes later , police cars pulled up , officers entered the home and were met with a nightmare.
judith lay in the hallway with gunshots wounds and deep lacerations jason was near the dining room, stabbed ,eyes still wide open,chad was on the floor of his bedroom with two bullets that had ended his life almost instantly.
there was blood in multiple areas,overturned furniture, a broken lamp, and a crumpled bed sheet where in the middle of the chaos, something stood out not everyone noticed right away.
a palm print in blood, clearly visible on the fabric.
but it wasn’t an ordinary print. two fingers where missing.
the scene made it clear and this had been a personal attack full of rage.
this wasn’t a robbery or random break -in. someone had come into that house with the intent to kill.
police began to piece together judith’s recent life,her relationships, her contacts, and very quickly,one name stood out .
-oscar frankin smith.
it was then that details began to emerge that had not been fully known until that point.
according to court records, smith had threatened judith on multiple occasions.
one month before the murders , he tied her up, raped her and told her he was going to kill her.
he would frequently call the waffle house where she worked,insulting her,threatening her , and issuing warnings.
he warned that he would kill her if she ever left him.
it was also revealed that he had offered money to people willing to kill his ex wife.
oscar and judtih were separated.there were previous reports of wiolence, witnesses who had heard threarts ,and a toxic relationship that never cooled down .
in the months leading up to the crime, oscar had taken out life insurance policies not just on judith but on both of her sons
for the police that alone was enough to raise suspicion,but what truly sealed it was what they found on that sheet.
forensic experts analyzed the bloody handprint.it was a left palm,but two fingers were missing,the middle and the ring.
the exact two fingers oscar had lost years earlier in a work accident.
when experts comared the shape of his hand to the mark, there was no doubt, it matched not just in shape,but in the angle .
the wrist possition, and the visible creases. it was his hand, and it was right there beside the body of his ex- wife.
with the handprint as solid evidence ,police didn’t need much more.
oscar franklin smith was arrested just over a month after the murders.
he denied everything.claimed he hadn’t been at the house, that he hadn’t seen judith that day,that it was all a mistake.
but to investigators,the crime scene told a different story.
beyond the handprint, there was another detail that proved critical.
a phone recording. during the attack,one of the boys , chad, managed to dial the phone.
the trial began in july 1990 in davidson county,the prosecution presented every piece of the puzzle .
the previous violence,the life insurance policies ,the bloody palm print, the recording .
it was also revealed that oscar had tried to fabricats an alibi by claiming he was away on a work trip, but he couldn’t clearly prove where he had been at the time of the murders.
the defense argued that the palm print might have been there from before,that oscar had lived in the house and could have left it on a previous occasion
but neither the jury nor the judge believed it.
during the trial ,close family members of judith also testified.
the verdict was unanimous,oscar frankin smith was found guilty of three counts of first -degree murder and he was sentenced to the maximum penalty,death by lethal injection.
he spent 35 years on death row at rioverbend maximum security institution in nashville.
during that time, he remained firm in his innocence and endured increasingly harsh conditions.
in 2022,he came within hours of being executed,but received a lastminute reprieve due to failures in the lethal injection protocols.
from that point on,he reported that conditions inside riverbend had worsened, accusing the authorities of failing to follow established policies.
in his final days, he was held in near total isolation, a measure his lawyers described as an unnecessary form of torture.
he was allowed contact only with his legal team, a spiritual adviser, and prison staff assigned to monitor him constantly.
despite appeals and new DNA evidence suggesting the presence of another person at the crime scene. the courts refused to reopen the case .
tennessee govenor bill lee also declined to intervene,according to the tennesse departement of correction.
smith requested hot dogs,tate tots, and an apple pie with vanilla ice cream for his final meal.
however, this wasn’t the first time the inmate ordered a last meal.
in 2022. smith was served a double cheesburger, a thick crusted apple pie, and vanilla ice cream as his final plate before his cheduled execution.
oscar franklin smith lay on the gurnie,and his spiritual adviser praying beside him.
when asked if he had any final words, he said yes.what followed was more than a goodbye. it was an accusation, a cry, a manifesto.
someone needs to tell the governor that the justice system doesn’t work, he has the final word ,he’s the last to decide if justice is truly served.too many innocent people are being executed.and if he can’t do what’s right,then he needs to stop being a govenor,the system is broken”
ordinary people like me don’t have the knowledge that experts do and that condemns us.if the governor doesn’t realize the there are more men waiting to die at riverbend,he’s a damn fool, i’m not the first and i wont be the last ,god bless him. if he ever finds the courage to do what must be done.
at 10 47 a.m. oscar smith was pronouced dead
after the execution, a press conference was held .
officials confirmed the timeline of the procedure . family members of the victims gave emotional statements about the impact of domestic violence, and witnesses described the final moments inside the chamber including smith’s last words and the unusual calm that marked his death.
oscar smith was executed on may 22nd, 2025 at 10 :47 a.m.becoming the first inmate to be executed under the state’s new lethal injection protocol, which uses a single dose of pentobarbatl.