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State attorneys in Tennessee say a judge’s order to take a death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution ...
A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee ...
A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device at a ...
A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...
A Davidson County judge is holding a rare hearing Tuesday morning that could impact how Tennessee carries out the execution ...
Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...
A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart ...
A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator should be turned off before his Aug. 5 ...
Byron Black, 65, was convicted in Davidson County of murdering his girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her daughters Latoya, 9, and Lakesha, 6, at their home in April 1988.
Byron Black was convicted of three murders in the late 1980s and sentenced to death. ... Twenty-five of the 48 inmates on death row are Black, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville's Chancery Court, they are asking a judge to require ...
A judge in Tennessee has dismissed a motion from a death row inmate who hoped to be spared an execution by being designated intellectually disabled. The Associated Press reports that Senior Judge ...