A Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) official said in a court declaration Nashville General Hospital told her they could deactivate the device prior to Black’s execution, but on ...

A judge has ruled Tennessee can move forward with Byron Black's execution after a hospital claimed it never agreed to ...

A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.

In the latest ruling, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that Black can be executed without the defibrillator being ...

Attorneys for Byron Black have filed a motion with the state Supreme Court seeking a stay, following a ruling that now ...

Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

Attorneys for a death row inmate in Tennessee who’s scheduled to be executed Aug. 5 warn that his implanted heart device will ...

Tennessee can execute Byron Black on Aug. 5 without having to first deactivate his heart device, the Tennessee Supreme Court ...

Attorneys for Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, have filed a request with the state Supreme Court to deny a request ...

Tennessee resumed state executions earlier this year. But Byron Black, a death row inmate who is scheduled to die next ...

A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...

Convicted triple-murderer Byron Black might elude his scheduled execution on Tuesday morning due to a recently claimed ...