Byron Black, an inmate on death row for 35 years, was executed in Tennessee while his defibrillator was still activated. The ...

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

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.

Byron Black was executed after a back-and-forth in court over whether officials would need to turn off his implantable ...

Black will become the 28th inmate put to death in the United States this year, a 10-year high, with at least nine more ...

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 ...

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

Black’s US lawyers raised concerns that his heart implant could shock him back to life, leading to undue suffering.

Byron Black, a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters, is scheduled to be executed ...

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the ...

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