Tennessee’s oldest death row inmate, Oscar Franklin Smit,h brutally murdered his wife and her children over thirty years ago. He was executed this year and had some haunting last words ...

FILE-Image of a death chamber at a correction facility. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Newsmakers/Getty Images) A Tennessee death row inmate who had a working defibrillator in his chest was executed by lethal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...

Lawyers for a disabled death row inmate are asking the state to ensure that his implanted heart defibrillator is disabled ...

A death-row inmate is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Tuesday in what is believed to be the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest. Byron Black, 69, ...

Byron Black noted intense pain during his lethal injection death earlier this week in Tennessee. He was executed after a back-and-forth in court over whether officials would need to disable his ...

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after the state refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was executed for murdering his girlfriend and her two young daughters. Byron ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Convicted murderer Byron Black was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday, Aug. 5, in what experts believe is the first execution of a death row inmate with a working heart ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the lethal injection began, according to several ...

(The Center Square) – Byron Lewis Black, convicted for the 1988 shooting death of his girlfriend and her two young children, was executed in Tennessee on Tuesday morning. He was 69. Black died by ...

Byron Black was executed for murders he committed in 1988. Black had a defibrillator in his chest and the Tennessee State Supreme Court ruled last week that it could be carried out without the device ...