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 scheduled execution of Byron Black.

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 ...

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

Pike was moved out of what her attorneys argued was solitary confinement last year. Pike is the only woman on death row in Tennessee. One of the other people convicted alongside Pike goes up for ...

Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, was convicted in the 1995 torture death of fellow Knoxville Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer, 19.

Tennessee's death row inmates sue to stop lethal injection protocol: 'A torturous death' Nine inmates on death row have filed a lawsuit saying the state's new lethal injection protocol brings the ...

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.

Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its efforts to schedule a new round of executions.

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...

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 ...