Byron Black was executed after a back-and-forth in court over whether officials would need to turn off his implantable ...

Byron Black, who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s, was given a lethal ...

Tuesday morning at Riverbend Prison, the state Department of Correction executed Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black. This ...

Byron Black, a death row inmate with dementia and multiple organ failure, was executed by lethal injection despite having an ...

Byron Lewis Black, convicted for the 1988 shooting death of his girlfriend and her two young children, was executed in ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on July 31 that Byron Black could be executed without deactivating his implanted ...

Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during the lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...

Convicted murderer Byron Black was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday, Aug. 5, in what experts believe is the first execution of a death row inmate with a working heart-regulating device.

The state executed Black after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined requests from attorneys, advocacy groups and even some Republicans to intervene.