Florida has carried out one-third of the 27 executions so far this year. With 10 more state killings planned, the US is on ...

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 permits his execution with his implant.

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.

Fresh from a trip to the White House, state Rep. Matt Simpson on Thursday renewed his charge to expand use of the death penalty.

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.

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

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