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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.
The state executed Black after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined requests from attorneys, advocacy groups and even some ...
Byron Black, an inmate on death row for 35 years, was executed in Tennessee while his defibrillator was still activated. The ...
Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...
Byron Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection for the deaths of Angela Clay, 29, and her daughters, Latoya, nine, and ...
Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability, was executed by the state of Tennessee despite strong public ...
Tennessee executed Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability and a live heart implant, despite ...
An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was in serious pain after the lethal ...
The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual disability and potential suffering. In ...
The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on July 31 that Byron Black could be executed without deactivating his implanted ...
A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after authorities refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was ...