Edward Zakrzewski, a former Eglin Air Force airman, was sentenced to death for killing his wife and two children in 1994.

Black has a pacemaker-defibrillator, and his lawyers have argued for it to be deactivated prior to the execution.

Tennessee death row inmate with pacemaker can be executed despite likelihood heart device will prolong suffering: court - Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on d ...

Florida could reach a state record for executions within a year by the end of the week. Mom Worried If New Rescue Dog Had ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking the Supreme Court to step in as questions loom about his intellectual ...

Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal, Thomas Gudinas was executed Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in the May 1994 murder of a woman in downtown Orlando.

He was a U.S. citizen, member of the Druze community and had a master's degree in accounting from Oklahoma Christian University, officials say.

A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...

The department said Tuesday it was indefinitely postponing the executions of Gissendaner and Brian Keith Terrell, who was scheduled to be executed next week for robbing and murdering a man in 2001 ...

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