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Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.
Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.
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 execute Byron Black on Aug. 5 without having to first deactivate his heart device, the Tennessee Supreme Court ...
According to the Tennessee Department of Correction, Black has selected pizza with mushrooms and sausage, donuts, and butter ...
Tennessee resumed state executions earlier this year. But Byron Black, a death row inmate who is scheduled to die next ...
Convicted triple-murderer Byron Black might elude his scheduled execution on Tuesday morning due to a recently claimed ...
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 Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...
Attorneys for Byron Black have filed a motion with the state Supreme Court seeking a stay, following a ruling that now ...
A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.
Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, or a higher court review, with the ...