Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, is scheduled to be the first to die by Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol on May 22.

Ahead of Oscar Smith’s execution Thursday morning for the murder of his wife and two of her children, people close to the case have expressed a wide span of thoughts and emotions leading up to this day.

Smith was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her sons, Jason and Chad, 13 and 16, at their Nashville home on Oct. 1, 1989.

A vehicle fire on VA 168 in Chesapeake disrupted traffic near Oscar Smith High School Friday afternoon, as emergency responders worked to bring the situation under control during the peak of the evening commute.

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