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

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

A Davidson County judge held what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the scheduled execution of Byron Black.

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

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

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 ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking a judge to step in ahead of his scheduled execution, arguing that a ...

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged ... Christ Church Cathedral, includes a death row ministry. “For me, ...

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 ...