A Tennessee death row inmate is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday morning despite concerns from his lawyers that ...

Byron Black’s lawyers argued his implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his ...

Byron Black's execution marked the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest, experts ...

Byron Black, 69, was executed for the 1988 South Nashville murders of his ex-girlfriend Angela Clay and her two daughters ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on July 31 that Byron Black could be executed without deactivating his implanted ...

After weeks of back and forth in the Tenn. courts, Bryon Black was given lethal injection, but it didn't go as planned.

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

The state executed Black after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined requests from attorneys, advocacy groups and even some Republicans to intervene.

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

Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite ...

Lawyers for Byron Black, who is scheduled to be put to death this month, say his defibrillator may be unnecessarily triggered ...