Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, or a higher court review, with the ...

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 ...

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

State attorneys in Tennessee say a judge’s order to take a death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution ...

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...

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

A Davidson County judge has ruled that the state must find a doctor to deactivate Byron Black's defibrillator before ...

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

Byron Black, 65, was convicted in Davidson County of murdering his girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her daughters Latoya, 9, and Lakesha, 6, at their home in April 1988.

A Davidson County judge held what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the scheduled ...

She now believes Black meets all of the new law's criteria for being intellectually disabled. "Today's order says that even though the law has changed, the courthouse doors are closed to Byron ...