Tennessee is set to execute an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, as uncertainty lingers about whether the device will shock his heart when a lethal drug takes effect.

Byron Barnett, a veteran Boston 7News reporter, passed away on Sunday (August 4, 2025). 7News shared the news on Monday.

Veteran 7News Boston reporter Barnett died at 69 on August 3, 2025, after battling cancer. Barnett also appeared in the Hall ...

Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters.

We urgently call on Governor Lee to prevent Tennessee from unquestionably violating the Constitution and risking a grotesque ...

Byron Black is being executed despite his intellectual disabilities and a heart device that his attorneys said could cause a ...

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 ...

Byron Barnett, veteran 7News Boston reporter, died at 69. He had been battling cancer, though the exact cause of death wasn’t ...

With two days until the scheduled execution of Byron Black, convicted of murdering a Nashville mother and her two children, ...