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Medical ethics and a prisoner’s heart implant complicate next execution in Tennessee
Tennessee’s highest court says the state can execute Byron Black without deprogramming a heart implant. It’s a tension that ...
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Tennessee Supreme Court Urged to Grant Stay in Byron Black’s Execution
Attorneys for Byron Black, a 66-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, have filed a motion for a stay of his execution due to ...
Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating implanted defibrillator, court rules
Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.
Why we must confront the ugliness of capital punishment in Tennessee | Opinion
Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...
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Tennessee Supreme Court Rules Execution of Inmate with Heart Device Can Proceed
Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.
Hospital says it never agreed to deactivate inmate’s heart device before execution
A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row ...
Victims' family waits for outcome in Nashville death penalty case: 'God has a plan’
After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.
Nashville Hospital denial sparks new legal twist in death row implant dispute
Attorneys for Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, have filed a request with the state Supreme Court to deny a request ...