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Victims' family waits for outcome in Nashville death penalty case: 'God has a plan’

After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.

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 ...

Death row inmate Byron Black submit request for stay of execution ahead of next week's execution

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking the Supreme Court to step in as questions loom about his intellectual ...

Disabled Tennessee death row inmate asks US Supreme Court to stay execution

A death row inmate who suffers from dementia, brain damage and heart failure has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme court.

Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating implanted defibrillator, court rules

Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.

Hospital says it never agreed to deactivate death row inmate’s heart implant days before scheduled execution

A Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) official said in a court declaration Nashville General Hospital told her they could deactivate the device prior to Black’s execution, but on ...

Court rules TN death row inmate can be executed without deactivating defibrillator

In the latest ruling, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that Black can be executed without the defibrillator being ...