The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case ...

Friday afternoon, Black's attorneys filed a response to TDOC's appeal, asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to reject the ...

In the appeal, TDOC says it’s seeking to lift the injunction and proceed with the execution without deactivating the device.

Byron Black, who has an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 5.

Family members, service providers and advocates for people with disabilities Thursday called on Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee to stop ...

Advocates for those with intellectual disabilities sent a letter to Governor Bill Lee requesting he commute the sentence of a ...

Por JONATHAN MATTISELa orden de un juez para trasladar a un recluso del corredor de la muerte de Tennessee al hospital en la mañana de su ejecución para que los médicos puedan ...

A judge issued an order on Friday, telling the Tennessee Department of Correction to disable a man’s heart implant before ...

A judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate’s implanted heart-regulating device at a hospital on the morning of his execution.

A leading expert and the state of Tennessee have acknowledged Byron Black's disability. Yet he is scheduled to be executed on ...