Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This undated booking photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Byron Black. (Tennessee Department of ...

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the lethal injection began, according to several witnesses. Black died at 10:43 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - One of Tennessee’s longest serving death row inmates will be allowed to deactivate a defibrillator implanted in his chest before he’s executed next month. A Davidson County ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The attorney for executed death row inmate Byron Black is providing more information about the execution in regards to the debated implanted defibrillator being deactivated ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the state's high court ruled on Thursday. The ruling overturns a lower court's ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — On Thursday, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that a death row inmate scheduled to die next week can be executed without deactivating his defibrillator, according to the Associated ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black is set to be executed on August 5. What’s been in contention with Black’s execution is whether his implanted defibrillator would be ...