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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’s lawyers argued his implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his ...
A Tennessee death row inmate is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday morning despite concerns from his lawyers that ...
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 ...
The state executed Black after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined requests from attorneys, advocacy groups and even some Republicans to intervene.
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 ...
Tennessee executed Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability and a live heart implant, despite ...
A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate’s implanted heart-regulating device at a ...