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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Tennessee inmate on death row has selected his last meal ahead of his execution scheduled for ...
Tennessee resumed state executions earlier this year. But Byron Black, a death row inmate who is scheduled to die next ...
Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role in its continuance.
A leading expert and the state of Tennessee have acknowledged Byron Black's disability. Yet he is scheduled to be executed on ...
Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.
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 ...
A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials to turn off a death row inmate’s heart-regulating ...
A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.
Attorneys for Byron Black have filed a motion with the state Supreme Court seeking a stay, following a ruling that now ...
State attorneys in Tennessee say a judge’s order to take a death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution ...
The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case ...
Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.