Anti-death penalty advocates, including the son of an inmate scheduled to be executed this week, gathered Monday morning at ...

Byron Black's attorneys argue the lethal injection drugs will cause his implant to shock his heart to try to restore its ...

A Nashville jury convicted Byron Black and sentenced him to death in 1989. Now more than 35 years later, he is set to be ...

The son of Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, is joining anti-death penalty protestors to deliver petitions to ...

With two days until the scheduled execution of Byron Black, convicted of murdering a Nashville mother and her two children, protesters aim to stop the sentence.

Tennessee’s highest court says the state can execute Byron Black without deprogramming a heart implant. It’s a tension that ...

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role in its continuance.

Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.

Tennessee death row inmate with pacemaker can be executed despite likelihood heart device will prolong suffering: court - Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on d ...

Black has a pacemaker-defibrillator, and his lawyers have argued for it to be deactivated prior to the execution.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Tennessee inmate on death row has selected his last meal ahead of his execution scheduled for ...