AP journalist Jonathan Mattise explains what made the execution of Byron Black in Tennessee different from other lethal ...

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

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

Tennessee is set to execute death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday despite raised concerns about his implanted heart device ...

Black will become the 28th inmate put to death in the United States this year, a 10-year high, with at least nine more ...

Tennessee will move forward with the execution of death row inmate Byron Black at 10 a.m. Aug. 5 after both Gov. Bill Lee and ...

Convicted triple-murderer Byron Black might elude his scheduled execution on Tuesday morning due to a recently claimed ...

Black’s US lawyers raised concerns that his heart implant could shock him back to life, leading to undue suffering.

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

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

The convicted murderer was put to death despite a legal battle over concerns his heart device would repeatedly shock him once ...