Byron Black is scheduled to be given a lethal injection after a legal battle about whether a working defibrillator in his ...

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

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

Tennessee is gearing up for an execution that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a ...

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

The son of Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, is joining anti-death penalty protestors to deliver petitions to ...

Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday morning despite concerns his heart implant will ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that death row prisoner, Byron Black, will be put to death regardless of whether his ...

Byron Black asked the courts to deactivate his implanted defibrillator ahead of his execution, which is set for Tuesday. The ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee high court rules death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee Aug. 5.