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Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on death row under modern legal standards ...
Attorneys for Byron Black have filed a motion with the state Supreme Court seeking a stay, following a ruling that now permits his execution with his implant.
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Byron Black decides on last meal
A man scheduled to be executed Tuesday has chosen his final meal.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Tennessee inmate on death row has selected his last meal ahead of his execution scheduled for ...
After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.
Attorneys for Byron Black, a 66-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, have filed a motion for a stay of his execution due to ...
A Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) official said in a court declaration Nashville General Hospital told her they could deactivate the device prior to Black’s execution, but on ...
A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.
Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.
Attorneys for a death row inmate in Tennessee who’s scheduled to be executed Aug. 5 warn that his implanted heart device will ...
As of now, a 68-year-old death row inmate is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, but the case of Byron Black is unusually ...
Tennessee can execute Byron Black on Aug. 5 without having to first deactivate his heart device, the Tennessee Supreme Court ...