Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might ...

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

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

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

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to disable a death row inmate's heart implant before he undergoes a lethal injection. Byron Black is scheduled to be executed in early August.

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.

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 ...

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

Lawyers of a death row inmate are trying to delay his execution after he committed a heinous crime in 1988. Byron Black, 68, is scheduled to be executed on August 5 at the Riverbend Maximum Security ...