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

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

After weeks of back and forth in the Tenn. courts, Bryon Black was given lethal injection, but it didn't go as planned.

Black was a man of undisputed intellectual disability, with multiple mental and physical health problems, who faced the ...

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

Death row lawyer Maria DeLiberato has revealed why she defends inmates facing execution, including child killers.