Tennessee carries out its second execution using a new protocol on a man with an active heart defibrillator in his chest. Before he died, he complained to have terrible pain.

Byron Black was executed after a court battle over whether officials would need to disable his ICD due to claims it might ...

A first-of-its-kind legal battle before Byron Black’s execution centered on whether his implanted cardiac device would shock him during lethal injection.

Days after the execution, his attorney released a statement confirming that the implanted defibrillator did not shock Byron ...

The jury in his trial concluded that he had been in a jealous rage when he shot them because he thought Clay, whom he had ...

Byron Black's implanted defibrillator did not shock him during his lethal injection by the state of Tennessee Aug. 5, ...

Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator did not cause any direct complications during his execution this week, ...

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

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

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

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

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