NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — With just weeks left before Byron Black’s scheduled execution, a Davidson County chancellor is weighing whether the state must remove a heart defibrillator from his chest ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee is set to execute an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, as uncertainty lingers about whether the device will shock his heart when a lethal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the state's high court ruled on Thursday. The ruling overturns a lower court's order ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A jolt from an implanted defibrillator is a very bad sign -- heart failure patients are about six times more likely to die after they receive their first life-saving shock, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - One of Tennessee’s longest serving death row inmates will be allowed to deactivate a defibrillator implanted in his chest before he’s executed next month. A Davidson County ...

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the lethal injection began, according to several witnesses. Black died at 10:43 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black is set to be executed on August 5. What’s been in contention with Black’s execution is whether his implanted defibrillator would be ...