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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Tennessee inmate on death row has selected his last meal ahead of his execution scheduled for ...
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 ...
Tennessee can move forward with next week's scheduled execution of a condemned man with a defibrillator after the state's highest court ruled the heart device does not need to be deactivated before he ...
After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.
A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.
A Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) official said in a court declaration Nashville General Hospital told her they could deactivate the device prior to Black’s execution, but on ...
In the latest ruling, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that Black can be executed without the defibrillator being ...
Attorneys for Byron Black have filed a motion with the state Supreme Court seeking a stay, following a ruling that now permits his execution with his implant.
Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.
A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator , the state's high court ruled ...