A leading expert and the state of Tennessee have acknowledged Byron Black's disability. Yet he is scheduled to be executed on ...

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

The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case ...

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

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...

Family members, service providers and advocates for people with disabilities Thursday called on Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee to stop ...

In less than two weeks convicted killer Byron Black is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee. Advocates are now asking Gov.

A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart ...

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

A Davidson County judge held what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the scheduled ...