Byron Black was executed for murders he committed in 1988. Black had a defibrillator in his chest and the Tennessee State Supreme Court ruled last week that it could be carried out without the device ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row inmate's heart-regulating implant before his execution ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police ...

A local hospital where the state has been ordered to disconnect a death row inmate’s heart device before his execution now says it never agreed to perform the procedure. Byron Black, 69, is set to be ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.