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On Tuesday, we saw some of the earliest fallout from the Supreme Court's decision earlier this summer in United States v.
Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.
Can same-sex couples marry anywhere in the United States? The Supreme Court said yes, making Tennessee’s voter-approved constitutional ...
Black has a pacemaker-defibrillator, and his lawyers have argued for it to be deactivated prior to the execution.
The road ahead for Nashville's Choose How You Move transit plan is clear — the Tennessee Supreme Court has rejected the ...
On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in the closely watched case of United States v. Skrmetti. In this 6-3 opinion, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s legislation ...
Tennessee can execute Byron Black on Aug. 5 without having to first deactivate his heart device, the Tennessee Supreme Court ...
Byron Black, a man convicted of murder 40 years ago, is scheduled to be executed on August 5, 2025, despite his documented ...
Attorneys for Byron Black, a 66-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, have filed a motion for a stay of his execution due to ...
On June 18, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors does not classify on the ...
Byron Black asked the courts to deactivate his implanted defibrillator ahead of his execution, which is set for Tuesday. The ...
The petition comes from a former Kentucky County Clerk who was jailed and fined after refusing to issue marriage licenses to ...