A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...

A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A temporary injunction for a Tennessee death row inmate’s request to turn off his defibrillator ...

A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator should be turned off before his Aug. 5 ...

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 judge held what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the scheduled ...

Black’s attorneys argue the device, implanted to regulate his heartbeat, could interfere with Tennessee’s lethal injection process and cause what they describe as torturous death. The ...

Byron Black, 68, was put on death row in 1989 after he murdered his girlfriend, Angela Clay, and her daughters Latoya and ...