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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

If Pike is put to death, she would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. The governor generally does not review clemency petitions until after a person's execution date ...

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.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee hasn’t executed an inmate on death row since early 2020, but now the new drug meant to restart the death penalty is raising new red flags among critics.

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