Byron Black’s lawyers say implant would shock the Tennessee prisoner in an attempt to restore his heart’s rhythm after the lethal injection
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 next week.
After a Nashville judge ordered the deactivation of Byron Black’s device, a Tennessee Department of Correction official said in a court declaration that Nashville General Hospital said they could disable it the day before his August 5 execution at 10am, but would not come to the prison on execution day, as the judge had ordered.
The judge ultimately allowed some leniency, saying Black could be moved to the hospital the morning of the execution.
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