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

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

On Aug. 5, executioners at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution plan to inject 68-year-old Byron Black with a lethal dose of pentobarbital, carrying out the death sentence handed down by a ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied a death row inmate's request to have a hearing on whether he is incompetent for capital punishment, paving the way for his execution on Aug. 5. Byron Black in ...