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

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

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

The convicted murderer was put to death despite a legal battle over concerns his heart device would repeatedly shock him once ...

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

"So, even though he's dead and lying in the morgue now," the defibrillator could still be checked "to see if it fired or not.

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on July 31 that Byron Black could be executed without deactivating his implanted ...

Byron Black, a death row inmate with dementia and multiple organ failure, was executed by lethal injection despite having an ...

Tennessee executed Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability and a live heart implant, despite ...