Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without ...

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

The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual disability and potential suffering. In ...

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after authorities refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was ...

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