Convicted triple-murderer Byron Black might elude his scheduled execution on Tuesday morning due to a recently claimed intellectual disability and dementia.

Tennessee resumed state executions earlier this year. But Byron Black, a death row inmate who is scheduled to die next Tuesday, has a list of potential complications.

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 asked the court this week to approve surgical removal of the device ahead of the Aug.