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Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.
Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black without deactivating his defibrillator, raising concerns about potential shocks during ...
Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on death row under modern legal standards ...
Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday morning despite concerns his heart implant will ...
The son of Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, is joining anti-death penalty protestors to deliver petitions to ...
Byron Black is being executed despite his intellectual disabilities and a heart device that his attorneys said could cause a ...
A death row inmate who suffers from dementia, brain damage and heart failure has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme court.
Attorneys for a death row inmate in Tennessee who’s scheduled to be executed Aug. 5 warn that his implanted heart device will ...
The story of a Tennessee death row inmate’s heart implant, and attempts to get it disabled before his execution, has gotten ...
Byron Lewis Black, a death-sentenced man in Tennessee, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution and review his ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee high court rules death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.