Court Orders Tennessee to Deactivate Defibrillator Before Executing Byron Black nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/t...

BREAKING ATTY STMT: Despite overwhelming evidence proving that #RobertRoberson is innocent in TX “shaken baby” case, court schedules execution for October 16, 2025. Read more here: tinyurl.com/4mbfe6rx

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond made a deal in 2023 to release Richard Glossip. Read more @theintercept.com w/ @jordansmith.bsky.social:

#Tennessee Byron Black Asks Governor Lee to Commute Death Sentence to LWOP Based on His Intellectual Disability, Which the State Acknowledged in 2022 ( See my Bluesky) docs.google.com/document/u/0... ( Note: Stop Execution of Byron ; See my Bluesky to take action) Execution : August 5, 2025

July 11: Attorney Seeks Clemency for Death Row Inmate; Tentative Date for Special Election nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/11/p...

Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black, a wheelchair-bound elderly man with intellectual disability, on August 5th. The Tennessee and U.S. Constitutions both p…

New Filing: #ByronBlack asks Governor Lee to commute death sentence to LWOP based on his intellectual disability before Aug. 5 scheduled execution. Black would be the first person with an intellectual disability executed in TN in the modern era. More here: tinyurl.com/4vnksm7y

The State of Tennessee Will Stop Byron Black’s Heart in August. A Device in His Chest Will Fight Back. nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/01/b...

New Filing: #ByronBlack seeks preliminary injunction to ensure implanted defibrillator cannot restart his heart during execution causing torturous death. Execution set for Aug. 5 despite State’s recognition of Black’s intellectual disability. More here: tinyurl.com/2s49rxfh

Lawyers ask Tennessee Supreme Court to weigh mental competency of intellectually disabled death row prisoner with dementia and brain damage. www.tennessean.com/story/news/2... @thetennesean.bsky.social @kelleyjhenry.bsky.social @stacyrector.bsky.social @thearcus.bsky.social #ByronBlack #deathpenalty

We are 10 minutes away from Oscar Franklin Smith being put to death. He should be with his spiritual adviser, who will be with him during the execution.

Kelley Henry: Death Row Defense Attorney nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/18/k...

Here is the Tennessee death-row prisoners’ filing, which alleges that the state obtained its execution drugs “illegal[ly by] ... purchasing a controlled substance from the gray market.” drive.google.com/file/d/1IzEb... @kelleyjhenry.bsky.social @stacyrector.bsky.social #deathpenalty

New Filing: TN death row prisoners ask court to reject state’s motion that would keep secret info about its lethal injection chemicals and the qualifications of executioners. Execution scheduled for next Thursday. Read more here: tinyurl.com/mr39xf69

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Check out this article from Tennessean: Tennessee has paid $600,000 for lethal injection drugs, but specific details remain secret www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

NASHVILLE, TN – Nine men on death row in Tennessee have filed a legal challenge against the state’s newly-adopted lethal injection protocol, arguing that it

Nine men on death row in Tennessee challenge the use of pentobarbital in the state's lethal injection protocol, citing constitutional rights, risk of torture.

New: Citing risk of extreme pain if they are poisoned to death with pentobarbital, as well as TN’s shameful history of mishandling execution processes, death row prisoners file complaint challenging new lethal injection execution protocol. More here: tinyurl.com/2b3be2b3

Biden commutes most federal death sentences before Trump takes office