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 ...

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

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

Witnesses said Black groaned on the gurney and attempted to lift his head multiple times as the lethal injection drugs flowed through him.

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 ...

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 ...

Anti-death penalty advocates, including the son of an inmate scheduled to be executed this week, gathered Monday morning at the Tennessee Capitol, urging Gov. Bill Lee to halt the execution of ...

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

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...