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

Byron Black, 68, was put on death row in 1989 after he murdered his girlfriend, Angela Clay, and her daughters Latoya and ...

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

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

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 Davidson County judge is holding a rare hearing Tuesday morning that could impact how Tennessee carries out the execution ...

State attorneys in Tennessee say a judge’s order to take a death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution ...

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

Black's attorneys argue the device, implanted to regulate his heartbeat, could interfere with Tennessee's lethal injection process and cause what they describe as torturous death. The defense team ...

Por JONATHAN MATTISELa orden de un juez para trasladar a un recluso del corredor de la muerte de Tennessee al hospital en la ...

A Davidson County judge held what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the scheduled ...

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