(5 Aug 2025)
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Nashville, Tennessee – 5 August 2025
1. People standing near prison
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Riggs, Pastor, Franklin Community Church:
"Yeah, it’s a sobering, it’s a sobering thing and we do what we do knowing that, um, it may not change anything right now, but I think as a pastor and as a follower of Jesus that someone has to bear witness and that this is wrong. This is barbaric."
3. Two women hugging
4. Man wearing a t-shirt with a graphic opposing the death penalty
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Boucher, death penalty opponent:
"This is not a merciful process. This is cruel and especially today I feel like it’s torturous. And so um, yeah, I’m just opposed to it in general."
6. Mid of people near prison
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Necoule Davis, cousin of victims of convicted killer Byron Black:
"When this crime occurred I was 13 going to the 7th grade. I’m 51 now standing in front of you guys and I’ve been paying my taxes to keep this scum alive this whole time. So, how does it affect me. It affects me a lot."
8. People walking in a parking lot near the prison
STORYLINE:
Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals took effect.
Byron Black was executed after a back-and-forth in court over whether officials would need to turn off his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD. Black, 69, was in a wheelchair, suffering from dementia, brain damage, kidney failure, congestive heart failure and other conditions, his attorneys have said.
The nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center said it’s unaware of any other cases in which an inmate was making similar claims to Black’s about ICDs or pacemakers. Black’s attorneys said they haven’t found a comparable case, either.
In mid-July, a trial court judge agreed with Black’s attorneys that officials must have the instrument deactivated to avert the risk that it could cause unnecessary pain and prolong the execution. But the state Supreme Court intervened Thursday to overturn that decision, saying the other judge lacked authority to order the change.
The state disputed that the lethal injection would cause Black’s defibrillator to shock him and said he wouldn’t feel them regardless.
Black was convicted in the 1988 shooting deaths of his girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her two daughters, Latoya Clay, 9, and Lakeisha Clay, 6. Prosecutors said he was in a jealous rage when he shot the three at their home. At the time, Black was on work-release while serving time for shooting Clay’s estranged husband.
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