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

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 ...

Family members, service providers and advocates for people with disabilities Thursday called on Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee to stop ...

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

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death sentence to life without the possibility of parole due to his intellectual ...

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

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

Por JONATHAN MATTISELa orden de un juez para trasladar a un recluso del corredor de la muerte de Tennessee al hospital en la ...

A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator should be turned off before his Aug. 5 ...

Black's attorneys argue the device, implanted to regulate his heartbeat, could interfere with Tennessee's lethal injection ...