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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Nashville, Tenn. — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty ...