Tennessee death row inmate with pacemaker can be executed despite likelihood heart device will prolong suffering: court - ...

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 ...

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 judge has ruled Tennessee can move forward with Byron Black's execution after a hospital claimed it never agreed to ...

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 ...

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

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

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