A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to avoid a prolonged death.

Two suspects have been charged in the shooting death of a man in Interstate 24 in Rutherford County, Tennessee last weekend.

The owner of a factory where six workers died last year in flooding from Hurricane Helene won't face charges after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation found no ...

Byron Black, 68, was put on death row in 1989 after he murdered his girlfriend, Angela Clay, and her daughters Latoya and ...

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to disable a death row inmate's heart implant before he undergoes a lethal injection. Byron Black is scheduled to be executed in early August.

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.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A temporary injunction for a Tennessee death row inmate’s request to turn off his defibrillator ...

Former Texas Southern University football player Tyler Martinez was killed in shooting near campus late last week.

A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart device before his scheduled August ...

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...