A Tennessee inmate said he was “hurting badly” after his lethal injection began. Before the execution, his defibrillator wasn ...

Lawyers for Byron Black argued that executing him without deactivating the device would shock him back to life.

Tennessee executed Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability and a live heart implant, despite ...

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the ...

Tennessee executed death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday despite raised concerns about his implanted heart device, which ...

Tuesday morning at Riverbend Prison, the state Department of Correction executed Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black. This ...

The state executed Black after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined requests from attorneys, advocacy groups and even some ...

The execution did not happen without controversy, with months of court hearings surrounding Black’s internal heart ...