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

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

Black has a pacemaker-defibrillator, and his lawyers have argued for it to be deactivated prior to the execution.

A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the state’s high court ruled ...

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

Attorneys for a death row inmate in Tennessee who’s scheduled to be executed Aug. 5 warn that his implanted heart device will ...

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

The story of a Tennessee death row inmate’s heart implant, and attempts to get it disabled before his execution, has gotten ...

Tennessee has put seven inmates to death since 2018, the most recent occurring in February 2020. In 2019, Funk agreed to seek a sentence reduction to keep Black death row inmate Abu-Ali Abdur ...

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

In the latest ruling, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that Black can be executed without the defibrillator being ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate is challenging the newly expanded authority of the appointed state attorney general to argue certain capital cases, a power that lawmakers ...