Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.

Black has a pacemaker-defibrillator, and his lawyers have argued for it to be deactivated prior to the execution.

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

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

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Tennessee inmate on death row has selected his last meal ahead of his execution scheduled for ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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

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.