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

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

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

Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A judge’s order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution ...

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 ...