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Tennessee Inmate to Be Executed Despite Ethical Health Concerns – The New York Times

Tennessee Inmate to Be Executed Despite Ethical Health Concerns  The New York Times Tennessee readies for execution of man with working implanted defibrillator  NPR Tennessee plans to execute inmate amid concerns his heart implant will shock him repeatedly  CNN Tennessee to execute Byron Black amid heart device, intellectual disability concerns  USA Today Tennessee man with heart device to be executed despite concerns it may …

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

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

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 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 “amounted to …

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NYC shooting victim Julia Hyman was working late when she was executed

NYC shooting victim Julia Hyman was working late when she was executed

The youngest victim of Monday’s shooting rampage in a Midtown skyscraper was a rising star — who was executed while working late. Julia Hyman, 27, was one of the last people still working on the 33rd floor of 345 Park Ave. about 6:30 p.m. when madman Shane Tamura, also 27, burst from the elevator and started blasting with an assault rifle. Hyman …

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Michael Bernard Bell executed in Florida for 1993 double murder

Michael Bernard Bell executed in Florida for 1993 double murder

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting two people outside a Florida bar in 1993 as part of an attempted revenge killing was executed Tuesday evening, the 26th person put to death in the U.S. this year. Michael Bernard Bell, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near …

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Florida man who killed 2 people outside a bar is scheduled to be executed

Florida man who killed 2 people outside a bar is scheduled to be executed

STARKE, Fla. — A man who fatally shot a man and woman outside a Florida bar as part of an attempted revenge killing is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. Michael Bernard Bell, 54, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, barring a last-day reprieve. He was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to death …

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Florida man who killed 2 people outside a bar is scheduled to be executed

Florida man who killed 2 people outside a bar is scheduled to be executed

STARKE, Fla. — A man who fatally shot a man and woman outside a Florida bar as part of an attempted revenge killing is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. Michael Bernard Bell, 54, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, barring a last-day reprieve. He was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to death …

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