Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating implanted defibrillator, court rules

Tennessee's high court has ruled that a death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator. The ruling Thursday overturns a lower court’s order and paves the way for Byron Black to be executed on Tuesday morning, as scheduled. The Tennessee Supreme Court found that requiring that the device be deactivated would effectively interfere with the execution, which the lower court does not have the power to do.