A Tennessee judge ruled Tuesday that the state can deactivate a death row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device at a ...

A Davidson County judge is holding a rare hearing Tuesday morning that could impact how Tennessee carries out the execution ...

During an average lifetime, the heart beats more than 2 billion times. To you, it might just be a steady "lub-dub" that speeds up under pressure and slows as you drift to sleep. But behind that ...

One of Tennessee’s longest serving death row inmates will be allowed to deactivate a defibrillator implanted in his chest before he’s executed next month.

A Davidson County judge held what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the scheduled ...

He was convicted in the 1987 triple murder of 29-year-old Angela Clay and her two young daughters and sentenced to death.

More than three decades have transpired since the inception of transtelephonic pacemaker monitoring. 1 3 This modality was identified as a useful method for tracking the function of pacemaker ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking a judge to step in ahead of his scheduled execution, arguing that a medical device implanted in his chest could prolong the process and cause ...