Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters.

Lawyers for Byron Black argued that executing him without deactivating the device would shock him back to life.

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

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two daughters, was executed on Tuesday, August 5.

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

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was "hurting so bad" while he was ...

Byron Black’s lawyers had sought prior to his execution to have his defibrillator deactivated. Read more at straitstimes.com.

On August 6, 135 years will have passed since the first execution by electric chair in the United States. The method was ...

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