Tennessee executes Byron Black amid concerns over his heart implant
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Tennessee executed Byron Black, a man with a defibrillator, despite legal and ethical concerns about his health and the potential for the device to cause him pain, marking a significant increase in US capital punishment activities amid ongoing debates over its morality and safety.
- Tennessee executes Byron Black despite concerns about his defibrillator Al Jazeera
- Tennessee executes Byron Black despite worries about his heart implant WPLN News
- Byron Black showed signs of distress, said he was in pain, witnesses of execution report The Tennessean
- Hospital says it never agreed to deactivate inmate’s heart device before execution AP News
- Byron Black: Tennessee inmate executed despite heart implant concerns BBC
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