Executions resume in Tennessee: Oscar Franklin Smith put to death

Smith was sentenced to death for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judy Lynn Smith, and her two sons, Chad and Jason Burnett. Smith maintained his innocence.

Flashback: Smith was previously scheduled for execution three years ago, but Gov. Bill Lee issued a last-minute reprieve due to problems with the state's lethal injection process.

• Prison officials took years to rewrite their protocol.

Lee declined to intervene this time. In his last words, Smith spoke out against Lee.

• "Somebody needs to tell the governor the justice system doesn't work," Smith said, according to accounts from reporters who witnessed the execution.

A member of the victims' family spoke to reporters after Smith was declared dead.

• "The pain of losing Judy, Chad and Jason is something that we will continue to carry," Judy Lynn Smith's sister Terri Osborne said, per the Tennessean.
• "These are memories and wounds that will never fully heal."

What's next: Three more executions are set in Tennessee this year. Death row inmate Byron Lewis Black is scheduled to die on Aug. 5.

• A lawsuit challenging the state's new lethal injection method is ongoing.