Officials in the US state of Tennessee hold a news conference after the execution of a triple killer who has been on death row for nearly four decades.
Byron Black, 69, shot dead his girlfriend Angela Clay and her two daughters, aged six and nine, in a jealous rage in 1988. He committed the murders while on work release for shooting Clay’s estranged husband.
Black is the first man to be executed with a working defibrillator in his chest. His bid to delay the execution was denied on Monday, and he was set to be killed by lethal injection. There was uncertainty over whether the device will shock his heart, potentially prolonging his death and causing suffering when the deadly cocktail takes effect.
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