In the appeal, TDOC says it’s seeking to lift the injunction and proceed with the execution without deactivating the device.

Byron Black, who has an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 5.

A judge has ruled that a death row inmate's heart device must be deactivated when he receives a lethal injection in Tennessee ...

Friday afternoon, Black's attorneys filed a response to TDOC's appeal, asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to reject the ...

A Davidson County judge is holding a rare hearing Tuesday morning that could impact how Tennessee carries out the execution ...

A Tennessee judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device at a ...

A Davidson County Chancery Court judge says the state of Tennessee must disconnect a death row inmate's heart defibrillator ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A temporary injunction for a Tennessee death row inmate’s request to turn off his defibrillator ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator should be turned off before his Aug. 5 ...

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 the deactivation of ...