Overview
- Byron Black’s lethal injection is set for 10 a.m. CT on Aug. 5 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
- On July 31, the state’s highest court reversed a lower court ruling that would have deactivated Black’s implantable cardioverter-defibrillator before his execution.
- The court declined to grant a new competency hearing under Tennessee’s 2021 retroactive intellectual disability law, leaving earlier findings intact.
- Black’s attorneys have filed last-minute appeals in state and federal courts and sought clemency from Gov. Bill Lee.
- If carried out, the execution would be Tennessee’s second since ending a five-year moratorium and underscores constitutional and medical ethics questions about executing disabled, medically vulnerable inmates.