Byron Black, who is on an implanted defibrillator, wants to make sure his heart does not restart during the execution, ...

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

A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's pacemaker should be turned off before his Aug. 5 execution.

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

A Tennessee death row inmate wants the state to turn off his implanted defibrillator before his execution so that the device does not try to shock his heart back into a normal rhythm after the lethal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up ...

Tennessee currently has 45 men and one woman on death row. The nine people who have filed the lawsuit are: Oscar Smith, who is scheduled to be executed on May 22, Byron Black, who is scheduled to ...

Indeed, even U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent in the 2018 case involving Tennessee death row inmate Ed Zagorski that pentobarbital "is widely conceded to be able to ...

Why states are turning to execution methods like firing squads and nitrogen gas 04:25. Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his ...