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The state executed Black after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined requests from attorneys, advocacy groups and even some Republicans to intervene.
Decades after sending him to death row, Nashville prosecutors admitted he shouldn’t be executed. Tennessee plans to kill him ...
Byron Black is being executed despite his intellectual disabilities and a heart device that his attorneys said could cause a ...
After the execution of Byron Black on Aug. 5, witnesses are slated to speak at a news conference outside the prison.
Tennessee executed death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday despite raised concerns about his implanted heart device, which ...
Byron Black, 69, was executed for the 1988 South Nashville murders of his ex-girlfriend Angela Clay and her two daughters ...
Black’s US lawyers raised concerns that his heart implant could shock him back to life, leading to undue suffering.
Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator did not cause any direct complications during his execution this week, ...
The attorney for a Tennessee man who said he was “hurting so bad” during his lethal injection this week says his implanted ...
Tennessee executed Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability and a live heart implant, despite ...
Convicted triple-murderer Byron Black might elude his scheduled execution on Tuesday morning due to a recently claimed ...
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 ...