Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on death row under modern legal standards ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Tennessee inmate on death row has selected his last meal ahead of his execution scheduled for ...

After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.

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's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

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.

Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

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 ...

Byron Black’s lawyers say implant would shock the Tennessee prisoner in an attempt to restore his heart’s rhythm after the ...