Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on death row under modern legal standards ...

Tennessee can execute Byron Black on Aug. 5 without having to first deactivate his heart device, the Tennessee Supreme Court ...

Black has a pacemaker-defibrillator, and his lawyers have argued for it to be deactivated prior to the execution.

A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the state's high court ruled ...

Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.

Byron Black asked the courts to deactivate his implanted defibrillator ahead of his execution, which is set for Tuesday. The ...