CHIKUN/KAJURU REP, HON. FIDELIX BAGUDU, ANNOUNCES NEW APPOINTMENTS TO STRENGTHEN INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE. (PHOTO).
The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a death row inmate can be executed without turning off his implanted defibrillator. This decision reverses a lower court order and allows Byron Black’s execution to proceed as planned on Tuesday morning.
The dispute centered on whether the defibrillator would interfere with the lethal injection of pentobarbital. A Davidson County judge had previously ruled that the device might repeatedly shock Black’s heart during execution, causing extra pain and prolonging death, and ordered it be deactivated shortly before the procedure. The Supreme Court concluded that requiring deactivation would improperly interfere with the execution process, a power the lower court does not possess.
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