Convicted triple-murderer Byron Black might elude his scheduled execution on Tuesday morning due to a recently claimed ...

Tennessee resumed state executions earlier this year. But Byron Black, a death row inmate who is scheduled to die next ...

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

A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Attorneys for Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, have filed a request with the state Supreme Court to deny a request ...

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