Byron Black, who has an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 5.

A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee ...

Death row inmate, Byron Black is set to be executed next month for a triple murder in 1987 - a judge has now ruled that his ...

In the appeal, TDOC says it’s seeking to lift the injunction and proceed with the execution without deactivating the device.

A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device at a ...

Friday afternoon, Black's attorneys filed a response to TDOC's appeal, asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to reject the ...

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death sentence to life without the possibility of parole due to his intellectual ...

A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator should be turned off before his Aug. 5 ...

A leading expert and the state of Tennessee have acknowledged Byron Black's disability. Yet he is scheduled to be executed on ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A temporary injunction for a Tennessee death row inmate’s request to turn off his defibrillator ...