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After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.
Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.
Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on death row under modern legal standards ...
A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.
A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...
Attorneys for Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, have filed a request with the state Supreme Court to deny a request ...