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A local hospital where the state has been ordered to disconnect a death row inmate’s heart device before his execution now says it never agreed to perform the procedure.
The story of a Tennessee death row inmate’s heart implant, and attempts to get it disabled before his execution, has gotten ...
Convicted triple-murderer Byron Black might elude his scheduled execution on Tuesday morning due to a recently claimed ...
Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, or a higher court review, with the ...
Friday afternoon, Black's attorneys filed a response to TDOC's appeal, asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to reject the ...
A death row inmate who suffers from dementia, brain damage and heart failure has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme court.
State attorneys in Tennessee say a judge’s order to take a death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution ...
A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials to turn off a death row inmate’s heart-regulating ...
Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking the Supreme Court to step in as questions loom about his intellectual ...
The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case ...
She now believes Black meets all of the new law's criteria for being intellectually disabled. "Today's order says that even though the law has changed, the courthouse doors are closed to Byron ...