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Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without deactivating it
In March of 1988, Black shot his girlfriend and her two daughters; under today’s standard he would not be eligible for the death penalty
Oscar Smith and Byron Black could be executed before a court reviews Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol
With new lethal injection protocol in place, state Supreme Court sets new slate beginning in May
The state will resume executing people on death row using the single drug pentobarbital
The state’s Supreme Court has set execution dates for two men next year