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A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...
A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to avoid a prolonged death.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A temporary injunction for a Tennessee death row inmate’s request to turn off his defibrillator ...
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 ...
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.
A Davidson County judge held what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the scheduled ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied a request for a competency hearing for death row inmate ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — (AP) — 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 ...