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Tennessee executed death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday despite raised concerns about his implanted heart device, which ...
After the execution of Byron Black on Aug. 5, witnesses are slated to speak at a news conference outside the prison.
Byron Black, an inmate on death row for 35 years, was executed in Tennessee while his defibrillator was still activated. The ...
Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters.
Tennessee executed Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability and a live heart implant, despite ...
Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, had argued that an execution may be more painful because of his heart ...
Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability, was executed by the state of Tennessee despite strong public ...
Black’s US lawyers raised concerns that his heart implant could shock him back to life, leading to undue suffering.
Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black without deactivating his defibrillator, raising concerns about potential shocks during ...
The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual disability and potential suffering. In ...
A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was "hurting so bad" while he was ...
Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...