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 Governor Bill Lee has announced that he will not intervene in Tuesday's execution of Byron Black.

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

Anti-death penalty advocates, including the son of an inmate scheduled to be executed this week, gathered Monday morning at ...

Tennessee must deactivate Byron Black's heart device before execution to avoid shocks amid lethal injection, says Judge Perkins, ruling on device concern.