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

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

After the execution of Byron Black on Aug. 5, witnesses are slated to speak at a news conference outside the prison.

Tennessee will move forward with the execution of death row inmate Byron Black at 10 a.m. Aug. 5 after both Gov. Bill Lee and ...

Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, had argued that an execution may be more painful because of his heart ...

Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...

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

Byron Black, a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters, is scheduled to be executed ...

Black’s US lawyers raised concerns that his heart implant could shock him back to life, leading to undue suffering.

A Nashville jury convicted Byron Black and sentenced him to death in 1989. Now more than 35 years later, he is set to be ...

Witnesses said Black groaned on the gurney and attempted to lift his head multiple times as the lethal injection drugs flowed through him.

The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual disability and potential suffering. In ...