Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking the Supreme Court to step in as questions loom about his intellectual ...

A death row inmate who suffers from dementia, brain damage and heart failure has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme court.

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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