Byron Black, who has an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 5.

In the appeal, TDOC says it’s seeking to lift the injunction and proceed with the execution without deactivating the device.

Friday afternoon, Black's attorneys filed a response to TDOC's appeal, asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to reject the ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case ...

A leading expert and the state of Tennessee have acknowledged Byron Black's disability. Yet he is scheduled to be executed on ...

A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate’s implanted heart-regulating device at a ...

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

In less than two weeks convicted killer Byron Black is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee. Advocates are now asking Gov.

Family members, service providers and advocates for people with disabilities Thursday called on Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee to stop the scheduled Aug. 5 execution of Byron Black, a man diagnosed with dementia ...

Por JONATHAN MATTISELa orden de un juez para trasladar a un recluso del corredor de la muerte de Tennessee al hospital en la mañana de su ejecución para que los médicos puedan ...