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A leading expert and the state of Tennessee have acknowledged Byron Black's disability. Yet he is scheduled to be executed on ...
The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case ...
State attorneys in Tennessee say a judge’s order to take a death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution ...
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Friday afternoon, Black's attorneys filed a response to TDOC's appeal, asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to reject the ...
A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator should be turned off before his Aug. 5 ...
A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...
A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...
Advocates for those with intellectual disabilities sent a letter to Governor Bill Lee requesting he commute the sentence of a ...
Black's attorneys argue the device, implanted to regulate his heartbeat, could interfere with Tennessee's lethal injection ...
In the appeal, TDOC says it’s seeking to lift the injunction and proceed with the execution without deactivating the device.
A Davidson County judge has ruled that the state must find a doctor to deactivate Byron Black's defibrillator before ...