NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Update (1 p.m. EDT): Tennessee carried out Byron Black's death sentence on Tuesday morning, executing the man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her two daughters in 1988.

Black was put to death by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for murdering 29-year-old Angela Clay and her daughters, 9-year-old Latoya and 6-year-old Lakeisha, as they slept in their Nashville home.

Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada announced Black's death before media witnesses gave their accounts of the execution. The victims' family members were in attendance.

Abigail Geyer, TDOC's victim services director, gave a statement on behalf of the family:

"I thank God for this day, a day that was a long time coming. 37 years is

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