NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The state of Tennessee executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday, despite recent efforts to prevent his death sentence.

On Tuesday morning, 69-year-old Bryon Black was put to death by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for murdering his girlfriend, 29-year-old Angela Clay, and her daughters, 9-year-old Latoya and 6-year-old Lakeisha.

Black had been on work release as part of his jail sentence for shooting Clay’s estranged husband, Bennie Clay, about 15 months earlier.

Related Coverage: Attorneys make last-ditch effort to prevent ‘grotesque spectacle’ in execution of man with activated defibrillator Court rules TN death row inmate can be executed without deactivating defibrillator Court grants temporary injunction i

See Full Page