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After the execution of Byron Black on Aug. 5, witnesses are slated to speak at a news conference outside the prison.
The convicted murderer was put to death despite a legal battle over concerns his heart device would repeatedly shock him once ...
Byron Black, 69, was executed Tuesday despite warnings that his defibrillator could cause pain. Witnesses say he cried out, ...
Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...
Byron Black, who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s, was given a lethal ...
Convicted murderer Byron Black was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday, Aug. 5, in what experts believe is the first ...
Tuesday morning at Riverbend Prison, the state Department of Correction executed Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black. This ...
Witnesses said Black groaned on the gurney and attempted to lift his head multiple times as the lethal injection drugs flowed through him.
The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on July 31 that Byron Black could be executed without deactivating his implanted ...
With two days until the scheduled execution of Byron Black, convicted of murdering a Nashville mother and her two children, ...
Tennessee is gearing up for an execution that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a ...
Lawyers for Byron Black, who is scheduled to be put to death this month, say his defibrillator may be unnecessarily triggered ...