NASHVILLE (AP) — A Tennessee man who said he was “hurting so bad” during his lethal injection this week for the 1980s killings of his girlfriend and her two young daughters was not shocked by his implanted defibrillator, his attorney said Friday.

Kelley Henry, the federal public defender for Byron Black, said her team received an initial evaluation of the data from his implantable cardioverter defibrillator.

Tennessee man noted intense pain during lethal injection without deactivating defibrillator

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was in serious pain after the lethal injection started. Prison officials say 69-year-old Byron Black died at 10:43 a.m. Tuesday. His defibrillator was left working despite uncertainty about whether the

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