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

Lawyers for Byron Black argued that executing him without deactivating the device would shock him back to life.

A heartbreaking case unfolds as a single mother loses her life in front of her five children. Authorities continue to ...

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after authorities refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was ...

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

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two daughters, was executed on Tuesday, August 5.

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

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was "hurting so bad" while he was ...