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

Byron Black was executed after a back-and-forth in court over whether officials would need to turn off his implantable ...

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

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

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

Tennessee executed Byron Black on Tuesday morning. Black, 69, said he was hurting badly shortly after the lethal injection began, according to several witnesses. Black had a defibrillator ...

Tennessee is set to kill Byron Black by lethal injection Tuesday morning. Black, 69, has a defibrillator implanted in his heart and his attorneys have argued whether the device will shock him when ...

Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate 's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, a judge ruled Friday.