Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black is intellectually disabled under the definitions of a new state law and his death sentence should be commuted to life in prison, District Attorney Glenn Funk ...

Byron Black was convicted of three murders in the late 1980s and sentenced to death. He argues a new state law should apply to him and save his life.

Black’s motion related to his heart device came within a general challenge he and other death row inmates filed against the state’s new execution protocol. The trial isn’t until 2026.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville's Chancery Court, they are asking a judge to require ...

A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Corrections to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart device before his scheduled August 5 execution. Black, 66, suffers ...

Nothing about Mr. Black’s intellectual disability has changed; only the erroneous, outdated standard has. Others on death row have had access to relief because their attorneys were less diligent ...

Black, represented by a team from the Federal Public Defender's office led by longtime death row defense attorney Kelley Henry, believes that since his claim was not heard under a new standard ...

A judge in Tennessee has dismissed a motion from a death row inmate who hoped to be spared an execution by being designated intellectually disabled. The Associated Press reports that Senior Judge ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate 's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - One of Tennessee’s longest serving death row inmates will be allowed to deactivate a defibrillator implanted in his chest before he’s executed next month. A Davidson ...

Byron Black Death row attorneys are seeking the delay of another execution due to the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the disruption caused by the crisis threatens to deprive their client of ...

Byron Black, who was found guilty of murdering a woman and her two kids decades ago, was originally scheduled to be put to death on Oct. 8, but the high court moved the execution to April 2021 ...