Byron Black, who has an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 5.

The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case ...

In the appeal, TDOC says it’s seeking to lift the injunction and proceed with the execution without deactivating the device.

Friday afternoon, Black's attorneys filed a response to TDOC's appeal, asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to reject the ...

A leading expert and the state of Tennessee have acknowledged Byron Black's disability. Yet he is scheduled to be executed on ...

A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate’s implanted heart-regulating device at a ...

Advocates for those with intellectual disabilities sent a letter to Governor Bill Lee requesting he commute the sentence of a ...

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

Por JONATHAN MATTISELa orden de un juez para trasladar a un recluso del corredor de la muerte de Tennessee al hospital en la mañana de su ejecución para que los médicos puedan ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A temporary injunction for a Tennessee death row inmate’s request to turn off his defibrillator ...