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

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 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 ...

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

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