Lawyers for Byron Black argued that executing him without deactivating the device would shock him back to life.

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after authorities refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was ...

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

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two daughters, was executed on Tuesday, August 5.

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

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

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

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

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was "hurting so bad" while he was ...

A TRIPLE murderer has become the first killer to be executed with a defibrillator implant in his chest. Byron Black, 69, ...

Byron Black, who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s, was given a lethal ...

Byron Black was executed in Tennessee while his heart defibrillator remained active, leading to pain after the state refused ...