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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.
Tennessee death row inmate requests Supreme Court review, postponement of execution date
Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, or a higher court review, with the ...
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.
Prisoner can be executed without turning off pacemaker, Tennessee high court rules
A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.
Tennessee death row inmate with pacemaker can be executed despite likelihood heart device will prolong suffering: court
Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on death row under modern legal standards ...
Nashville Hospital denial sparks new legal twist in death row implant dispute
Attorneys for Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, have filed a request with the state Supreme Court to deny a request ...