Convicted murderer Byron Black was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday, Aug. 5, in what experts believe is the first ...

The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual disability and potential suffering. In this week’s Ask Isaacs, 6 News anchor ...

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 ...

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

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

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

A local hospital where the state has been ordered to disconnect a death row inmate’s heart device before his execution now says it never agreed to perform the procedure.

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 ...

Byron Black, a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters, is scheduled to be executed ...

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

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