Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might ...

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 ...

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

Byron Black, 68, was put on death row in 1989 after he murdered his girlfriend, Angela Clay, and her daughters Latoya and ...

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.

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

A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator should be turned off before his Aug. 5 ...

A Davidson County judge held what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the scheduled execution of Byron Black.

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater tots ...

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution.