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.

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 ...

The Tennessee governor says he will not intervene to save a convicted killer set to be executed in less than 24 hours.

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

Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Byron Black on Tuesday morning despite concerns his heart implant will ...

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

Black's attorneys say the only surefire way to shut off the device is for a doctor to place a programming device over the implant site, sending it a deactivation command. It is unclear how quickly ...