NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - One of Tennessee’s longest serving death row inmates will be allowed to deactivate a defibrillator implanted in his chest before he’s executed next month. A Davidson County ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was "hurting so bad" while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, where authorities had ...

Each year, tens of thousands of Americans have defibrillators implanted in their chests to regulate heart rhythm. Earlier this year, the death of a 21-year-old from a malfunctioning device focused new ...

Gov. Bill Lee declined to grant a reprieve Monday amid uncertainty about whether the implantable defibrillator will shock Byron Black's heart when... NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is gearing up for an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On extremely hot days, people with implanted defibrillators face nearly triple the odds for a dangerous arrhythmia known as atrial ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the state's high court ruled on Thursday. The ruling overturns a lower court's order ...

Thousands of Americans with heart trouble have small implanted defibrillators, to help regulate their heartbeat and keep cardiac events at bay. But new research finds that on extremely hot days, ...