Tennessee carries out its second execution using a new protocol on a man with an active heart defibrillator in his chest. Before he died, he complained to have terrible pain.

Byron Black noted intense pain during his lethal injection death earlier this week, with some wondering if it was because his defibrillator wasn’t deactivated.

Days after the execution, his attorney released a statement confirming that the implanted defibrillator did not shock Byron ...

A first-of-its-kind legal battle before Byron Black’s execution centered on whether his implanted cardiac device would shock ...

The jury in his trial concluded that he had been in a jealous rage when he shot them because he thought Clay, whom he had ...

Byron Black's implanted defibrillator did not shock him during his lethal injection by the state of Tennessee Aug. 5, ...

Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator did not cause any direct complications during his execution this week, ...

On August 5, 2025, the state of Tennessee executed prisoner Byron Black by intravenous injection of a large dose of ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis has already executed more inmates this year than any governor in Florida history – and will soon add to ...

Black was a man of undisputed intellectual disability, with multiple mental and physical health problems, who faced the ...

Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters.

Lawyers for Byron Black argued that executing him without deactivating the device would shock him back to life.