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 ...

According to the Tennessee Department of Correction, Black has selected pizza with mushrooms and sausage, donuts, and butter ...

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

Attorneys for Byron Black have filed a motion with the state Supreme Court seeking a stay, following a ruling that now ...

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

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

A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...

Tennessee can execute Byron Black on Aug. 5 without having to first deactivate his heart device, the Tennessee Supreme Court ...

Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, or a higher court review, with the ...

Lawyers for Byron Black, who is scheduled to be put to death this month, say his defibrillator may be unnecessarily triggered and subject him to "severe pain." ...

A death row inmate who suffers from dementia, brain damage and heart failure has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme court.

A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.