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

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

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

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

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

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

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was in serious pain after the lethal ...

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

Byron Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection for the deaths of Angela Clay, 29, and her daughters, Latoya, nine, and ...