A suicide cell the pensioner who killed his wife chose double bacon cheeseburgerapple pie with a deep dish and ice cream with vanilla beans for the last meal.
72-year-old Oscar Franklin Smith will eat a fatty dish before he is given a lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee.
Smith was doomed after he brutally stabbed and shot his wife Judith Smith and her sons Jason and Chad Burnett, 13 and 16, at their home in 1989.
The 72-year-old man has always denied serious crimes, but his latest appeal has been rejected, meaning he will be punished tonight.
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A spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Corrections said the prisoner would receive food the same day he was executed.
It is reported that prisoners usually receive $ 20 [ £15.31] go to the last meal, reports Tennessean.
On Monday (April 18), Smith was put on “death watch” and transferred to a cell next to the execution chamber for three days.
The ex-driver shot Judith in the neck before stabbing her several times.
At the time, it was reported that he shot 16-year-old Chad in the left eye and then in the upper chest and left torso, and 13-year-old Jason was stabbed in the neck and abdomen.
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Judith and Smith, who had three-year-old twins, were separated at the time of the fatal attack.
According to his mother’s work colleagues, Smith threatened to die more than 10 times from June to August 1989.
Earlier this week, Gov. Bill Lee Con confirmed in an email that the sentence would continue.
“After careful consideration of Oscar Smith’s request for pardon and a broad hearing, the Tennessee verdict will be in force and I will not interfere,” he said.
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