Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

Tennessee is gearing up for an execution that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a ...

Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on death row under modern legal standards ...

A death row inmate who suffers from dementia, brain damage and heart failure has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme court.

The son of Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, is joining anti-death penalty protestors to deliver petitions to ...

Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday morning despite concerns his heart implant will ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee high court rules death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee Aug. 5.

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his execution by lethal injection ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate 's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, ...