Tennessee is gearing up for an execution that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a ...

A first-of-its-kind legal battle before Byron Black’s execution centered on whether his implanted cardiac device would shock him during lethal injection.

Days after the execution, his attorney released a statement confirming that the implanted defibrillator did not shock Byron ...

Byron Black's implanted defibrillator did not shock him during his lethal injection by the state of Tennessee Aug. 5, ...

Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator did not cause any direct complications during his execution this week, ...

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

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

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two daughters, was executed on Tuesday, August 5.

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was "hurting so bad" while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, where authorities had ...

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

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