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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.
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 ...
Convicted triple-murderer Byron Black might elude his scheduled execution on Tuesday morning due to a recently claimed ...
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.
Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...
Byron Black, a man convicted of murder 40 years ago, is scheduled to be executed on August 5, 2025, despite his documented ...
AP journalist Jonathan Mattise explains what made the execution of Byron Black in Tennessee different from other lethal ...
A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee Aug. 5.