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

Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...

The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual disability and potential suffering. In ...

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

Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black without deactivating his defibrillator, raising concerns about potential shocks during ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability, was executed by the state of Tennessee despite strong public ...

A Tennessee inmate said he was “hurting badly” after his lethal injection began. Before the execution, his defibrillator wasn ...

Tennessee executed Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability and a live heart implant, despite ...

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

The massive search effort for a man charged with killing four people and abandoning a baby in Tennessee has ended.