A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the state's high court ruled ...

Attorneys for Byron Black, a 66-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, have filed a motion for a stay of his execution due to ...

Tennessee resumed state executions earlier this year. But Byron Black, a death row inmate who is scheduled to die next Tuesday, has a list of potential complications.

Attorneys for a death row inmate in Tennessee who’s scheduled to be executed Aug. 5 warn that his implanted heart device will ...

Tennessee can execute Byron Black on Aug. 5 without having to first deactivate his heart device, the Tennessee Supreme Court ...

A Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) official said in a court declaration Nashville General Hospital told her they could deactivate the device prior to Black’s execution, but on ...

A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.

Attorneys for Byron Black have filed a motion with the state Supreme Court seeking a stay, following a ruling that now ...

Byron Black asked the courts to deactivate his implanted defibrillator ahead of his execution, which is set for Tuesday. The ...

In the latest ruling, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that Black can be executed without the defibrillator being ...

As of now, a 68-year-old death row inmate is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, but the case of Byron Black is unusually ...

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