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After the execution of Byron Black on Aug. 5, witnesses are slated to speak at a news conference outside the prison.
Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters.
Black was a man of undisputed intellectual disability, with multiple mental and physical health problems, who faced the ...
Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability, was executed by the state of Tennessee despite strong public ...
The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual disability and potential suffering. In ...
Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...
A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after authorities refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was ...
Lawyers for Byron Black argued that executing him without deactivating the device would shock him back to life.
A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was "hurting so bad" while he was ...
Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black without deactivating his defibrillator, raising concerns about potential shocks during ...
Byron Black, a 69-year-old man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two daughters, was executed on Tuesday, August 5.
A heartbreaking case unfolds as a single mother loses her life in front of her five children. Authorities continue to ...