A 75-year-old man was put to death in the US.
Oscar Smith was his name.
He got in trouble for killing his wife and two stepsons 35 years ago.
The killing happened on October 1, 1989.
Smith said he didn’t do it until he died.
The US state of Tennessee did the execution.
They used a big dose of a drug called pentobarbital.
This was the first execution in Tennessee in five years.
The state stopped executions because of COVID-19 and problems with the execution drugs.
Some new evidence came out in 2022.
It showed someone else’s DNA on a weapon at the crime scene.
But the court still said Smith was guilty.
They said other evidence showed he did it.
Two of Smith’s friends said he asked them to kill his wife.
Smith also had insurance on his wife and stepsons.
On the night of the killing, a 911 call recorded a child yelling, “Frank, no!”
Prosecutors said “Frank” was a nickname for Smith.
There are still 46 people on death row in Tennessee.
Some other states use different methods, like gas or firing squads.
Source: CBS News