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Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator.
Defenders say Tennessee inmate is intellectually disabled and wouldn’t be on death row under modern legal standards ...
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.
A lower court had acknowledged that Byron Black’s implanted combination pacemaker-defibrillator could prolong his suffering by shocking his heart after lethal injection.
Byron Black, a Tennessee death row inmate, has filed a petition for writ of certiorari, or a higher court review, with the ...