Tennessee carries out its second execution using a new protocol on a man with an active heart defibrillator in his chest. Before he died, he complained to have terrible pain.

Local, state and federal politicians representing Nashville weighed in following the announcement, and a familiar division emerged.

Byron Black was executed after a court battle over whether officials would need to disable his ICD due to claims it might ...

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 ...

The jury in his trial concluded that he had been in a jealous rage when he shot them because he thought Clay, whom he had ...

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

A man who was recently executed via lethal injection cried out in pain because something seemed to have gone wrong. However, ...

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 ...

Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters.

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