NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Oscar Franklin Smith became the first man in five years to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday, and News 2's Tori Gessner was selected to witness it.

Smith was convicted of the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judy, and her two teenage sons, Chad and Jason, in Nashville.

The only hiccup during the execution was things got underway later than scheduled on Thursday, May 22 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.

The seven media witnesses were seated in the room where they would watch Smith be put to death 15 minutes behind schedule, at 10:16 a.m. Only permitted to have a pen and notebook issued by the Tennessee Department of Correction, journalists vigorously took notes of the sights and sounds they witnessed.

While the curtains to the death chamber were

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