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 ...

There have been 28 executions in the U.S. so far in 2025; three more than in all of 2024. Ed Zakrzewski was the Sunshine ...

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

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

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

Tennessee has put to death a 68-year-old prisoner who suffered from dementia, brain damage and kidney and heart failure.

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability, was executed by the state of Tennessee despite strong public ...

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

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the ...