NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — With just days left until death row inmate, Byron Black's execution, a Nashville hospital said it never agreed to deactivate his heart-regulating implant before he is put to death, but a judge ruled he can be executed regardless.

Byron Black is scheduled to be executed Aug. 5 for the 1988 murders of Angela Clay and her two young daughters, LaToya and LaKeisha.

However, a judge ruled Black's heart-regulating implant, which his defense attorneys argued would deliver painful shocks during his execution, should be deactivated first, despite the state's argument Black wouldn't be able to feel the shocks once the pentobarbital was administered.

A Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) official said in a court declaration Nashville General Hospital told her they co

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