The state executed Black after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined requests from attorneys, advocacy groups and even some ...

Byron Black, 69, was executed for the 1988 South Nashville murders of his ex-girlfriend Angela Clay and her two daughters ...

Tennessee executed death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday despite raised concerns about his implanted heart device, which ...

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

Byron Black is being executed despite his intellectual disabilities and a heart device that his attorneys said could cause a ...

Tennessee will move forward with the execution of death row inmate Byron Black at 10 a.m. Aug. 5 after both Gov. Bill Lee and ...

Byron Black’s lawyers argued his implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his ...

Decades after sending him to death row, Nashville prosecutors admitted he shouldn’t be executed. Tennessee plans to kill him ...

Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, had argued that an execution may be more painful because of his heart ...

Black’s US lawyers raised concerns that his heart implant could shock him back to life, leading to undue suffering.

Byron Black, a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters, is scheduled to be executed ...

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