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Byron Black noted intense pain during his lethal injection death earlier this week, with some wondering if it was because his defibrillator wasn’t deactivated.
Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator did not cause any direct complications during his execution this week, ...
Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters.
A first-of-its-kind legal battle before Byron Black’s execution centered on whether his implanted cardiac device would shock ...
Tennessee executed death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday despite raised concerns about his implanted heart device, which ...
Byron Black's implanted defibrillator did not shock him during his lethal injection by the state of Tennessee Aug. 5, ...
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.
A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after authorities refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was ...
Days after the execution, his attorney released a statement confirming that the implanted defibrillator did not shock Byron ...
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 ...
Black was a man of undisputed intellectual disability, with multiple mental and physical health problems, who faced the ...