Tennessee's governor has called off what was to have been the US state's first execution since the start of the pandemic, granting a temporary reprieve to the oldest inmate on death row for what was called an "oversight" in preparations for the lethal injection.Republican Governor Bill Lee didn't elaborate on what exactly forced the surprise 11th-hour stop to the planned execution of 72-year-old Oscar Smith.The inmate was to have received a three-drug injection only a short while later in the evening at a Nashville maximum security prison.
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