Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.

A Tennessee inmate on death row has selected his last meal ahead of his execution scheduled for next week. Byron Black is set ...

Tennessee resumed state executions earlier this year. But Byron Black, a death row inmate who is scheduled to die next ...

Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...

Attorneys for Byron Black, a 66-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, have filed a motion for a stay of his execution due to ...

After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.

Lawyers for Byron Black, who is scheduled to be put to death this month, say his defibrillator may be unnecessarily triggered and subject him to "severe pain." ...

Attorneys for Byron Black have filed a motion with the state Supreme Court seeking a stay, following a ruling that now ...

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role in its continuance.

Attorneys for a death row inmate in Tennessee who’s scheduled to be executed Aug. 5 warn that his implanted heart device will ...

Convicted triple-murderer Byron Black might elude his scheduled execution on Tuesday morning due to a recently claimed ...