A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...

A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart device before his scheduled August ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A temporary injunction for a Tennessee death row inmate’s request to turn off his defibrillator ...

One of Tennessee’s longest serving death row inmates will be allowed to deactivate a defibrillator implanted in his chest before he’s executed next month.

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville's Chancery Court, they are asking a judge to require the Tennessee Department ...

But nearly half of inmates listed on death row, 47 percent, come from the county. The geographic disparity hasn't been evident among Tennessee executions since August 2018, when the state ...

Tennessee currently has 45 men and one woman on death row. The nine people who have filed the lawsuit are: Oscar Smith, who is scheduled to be executed on May 22, Byron Black, who is scheduled to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up ...

Who executes Tennessee's death row inmates? Court records provide a rare glimpse — and in their own words Thousands of pages of court documents provide a detailed look into who and how the state ...

Here are some of the last meals chosen by recent death row inmates. Pork chops and mashed potatoes Nicholas Todd Sutton, 58, was the last inmate executed in Tennessee on Feb. 20, 2020.

By JONATHAN MATTISE NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in ...