Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters.

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 ...

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

Gov. Ron DeSantis has already executed more inmates this year than any governor in Florida history – and will soon add to ...

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 ...

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