Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking the Supreme Court to step in as questions loom about his intellectual ...

A death row inmate who suffers from dementia, brain damage and heart failure has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme court.

Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, or a higher court review, with the ...

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

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

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

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

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...

State attorneys in Tennessee say a judge’s order to take a death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution ...

Black's attorneys argue the device, implanted to regulate his heartbeat, could interfere with Tennessee's lethal injection process and cause what they describe as torturous death. The defense team ...

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

Por JONATHAN MATTISELa orden de un juez para trasladar a un recluso del corredor de la muerte de Tennessee al hospital en la ...