NASHVILLE, Tenn. — (AP) — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite ...

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

The convicted murderer was put to death despite a legal battle over concerns his heart device would repeatedly shock him once ...

Tuesday morning at Riverbend Prison, the state Department of Correction executed Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black. This ...

Byron Black, a death row inmate with dementia and multiple organ failure, was executed by lethal injection despite having an ...

Byron Lewis Black, convicted for the 1988 shooting death of his girlfriend and her two young children, was executed in ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on July 31 that Byron Black could be executed without deactivating his implanted ...

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

Twenty-eight men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and nine other people are scheduled to be put to death in seven states during the remainder of 2025.