After the execution of Byron Black on Aug. 5, witnesses are slated to speak at a news conference outside the prison.

Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after authorities refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was ...

Black was a man of undisputed intellectual disability, with multiple mental and physical health problems, who faced the ...

A Tennessee inmate said he was “hurting badly” after his lethal injection began. Before the execution, his defibrillator wasn ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two daughters, was executed on Tuesday, August 5.

The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual disability and potential suffering. In ...

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