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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The story of a Tennessee death row inmate’s heart implant, and attempts to get it disabled before his execution, has gotten ...

A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials to turn off a death row inmate’s heart-regulating ...