Tennessee executed death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday despite raised concerns about his implanted heart device, which ...

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was in serious pain after the lethal ...

Tuesday morning at Riverbend Prison, the state Department of Correction executed Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black. This ...

The state executed Black after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined requests from attorneys, advocacy groups and even some ...

The execution did not happen without controversy, with months of court hearings surrounding Black’s internal heart ...

Lawyers for Byron Black, who was convicted of a triple homicide, argued that executing him without deactivating the device would shock him back to life.

Tennessee executed Byron Black on August 5, 2025. Despite there being strong objections from his attorneys, disability ...

Byron Black, 69, died by lethal injection despite an attempt by his lawyers to have his defibrillator deactivated before the ...

Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black without deactivating his defibrillator, raising concerns about potential shocks during ...