The Epoch Times Tennessee’s governor on May 2 said he was suspending all executions scheduled to take place in 2022.
Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, said the move was being made because of questions that were raised regarding testing of lethal injections during preparation for executing Oscar Franklin Smith, one of the inmates on death row in Tennessee.
Smith, 72, convicted of killing his estranged wife and her two teenage sons in Nashville in 1989, had received his final meal and was slated to be put to death when Lee issued a temporary reprieve in April.
Lee attributed the reprieve—which happened just two days after he denied Smith’s request for clemency—to an “oversight in preparation for lethal injection,” with no further details disclosed…
