Tennessee carries out its second execution using a new protocol on a man with an active heart defibrillator in his chest. Before he died, he complained to have terrible pain.

Byron Black noted intense pain during his lethal injection death earlier this week, with some wondering if it was because his defibrillator wasn’t deactivated.

Black, 69, was executed for allegedly murdering his former girlfriend, Angela Clay, 29, and her two daughters Latoya, nine, ...

The attorney for a Tennessee man who said he was “hurting so bad” during his lethal injection this week says his implanted ...

Tennessee is gearing up for an execution that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest ...

Days after the execution, his attorney released a statement confirming that the implanted defibrillator did not shock Byron ...

A first-of-its-kind legal battle before Byron Black’s execution centered on whether his implanted cardiac device would shock ...

Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator did not cause any direct complications during his execution this week, ...

The jury in his trial concluded that he had been in a jealous rage when he shot them because he thought Clay, whom he had ...

Byron Black's implanted defibrillator did not shock him during his lethal injection by the state of Tennessee Aug. 5, according to his attorney who said she evaluated data from the medical device.

FILE - This undated booking photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Byron Black. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A judge’s order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the ...

Black was a man of undisputed intellectual disability, with multiple mental and physical health problems, who faced the ...