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.

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

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 ...

Byron Black is being executed despite his intellectual disabilities and a heart device that his attorneys said could cause a ...

Black was a man of undisputed intellectual disability, with multiple mental and physical health problems, who faced the ...

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

Tennessee executed Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability and a live heart implant, despite ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability, was executed by the state of Tennessee despite strong public ...

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.

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