After the execution of Byron Black on Aug. 5, witnesses are slated to speak at a news conference outside the prison.

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

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after authorities refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was ...

Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability, was executed by the state of Tennessee despite strong public ...

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

Black was a man of undisputed intellectual disability, with multiple mental and physical health problems, who faced the ...

The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual disability and potential suffering. In ...

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

Gov. Ron DeSantis has already executed more inmates this year than any governor in Florida history – and will soon add to ...

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