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Tennessee plans to execute inmate amid concerns his heart implant will shock him repeatedly
Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite ...
Protesters make final push to halt execution of Nashville murder convict Byron Black
With two days until the scheduled execution of Byron Black, convicted of murdering a Nashville mother and her two children, ...
Advocates to deliver petitions urging Gov. Bill Lee to halt Byron Black’s execution
Anti-death penalty advocates, including the son of an inmate scheduled to be executed this week, gathered Monday morning at the Tennessee Capitol, urging Gov. Bill Lee to halt the execution of Byron ...
TN admits Byron Black's disability. Now, Gov. Lee must prevent his execution | Opinion
A leading expert and the state of Tennessee have acknowledged Byron Black's disability. Yet he is scheduled to be executed on ...
Hospital says it never agreed to deactivate inmate’s heart device before execution
A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...
TN Supreme Court rules death row inmate can be executed without turning off his defibrillator
Byron Black asked the courts to deactivate his implanted defibrillator ahead of his execution, which is set for Tuesday. The ...
Opinion
Why we must confront the ugliness of capital punishment in Tennessee | Opinion
Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role in its continuance.