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Tennessee death row inmate cries out in pain during lethal injection after state refused to deactivate defibrillator implant
NYPost.com ^ | 8/5/25 | Anna Young

Posted on 08/05/2025 1:55:00 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

Tennessee death row inmate cries out in pain during lethal injection after state refused to deactivate defibrillator implant

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after the state refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was executed for murdering his girlfriend and her two young daughters.

Byron Black, 69, was pronounced dead at 10:43 a.m., about 10 minutes after receiving a lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, according to state correctional officials.

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โ€œToday, the state of Tennessee killed a gentle, kind, fragile, intellectually disabled man in a violation of the laws of our country simply because they could.โ€


1 posted on 08/05/2025 1:55:00 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Yeah, I remember wincing after I was sedated for carotid surgery......FRIGGIN’ NOT! They could have ended me and I would never have known. Well except I wouldn’t have seen who I thought I was gonna see. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘


2 posted on 08/05/2025 1:58:19 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I am laughing with delight. Thank you, Tennessee.


3 posted on 08/05/2025 2:00:03 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Maybe Jim Acosta can interview his murder victims and ask how bad they feel about it.


4 posted on 08/05/2025 2:00:06 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
The victims. No mention about cries of pain from them.


5 posted on 08/05/2025 2:00:47 PM PDT by xp38
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Well, if the death penalty opponents had not done everything that they have to keep sedation and anesthetic drugs from being used ‘off label’, we wouldn’t have this problem, would we?

Any pain being experienced is directly the cause of death penalty opponents own actions.


6 posted on 08/05/2025 2:02:05 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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Well, if the death penalty opponents had not done everything that they have to keep sedation and anesthetic drugs from being used ‘off label’, we wouldn’t have this problem, would we?

Any pain being experienced is directly the cause of death penalty opponents own actions.


7 posted on 08/05/2025 2:02:05 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Tell It Right

Jim “Miss Cleo” Acosta?


8 posted on 08/05/2025 2:02:17 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Old admirals who feel the wind Are never put to sea. Al Stewart)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Preview what you will be getting in the afterlife.


9 posted on 08/05/2025 2:03:03 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Somehow Iโ€™m not getting all tore up here.


10 posted on 08/05/2025 2:03:07 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

We are having chicken parmesan over angel hair pasta tonight.
Can’t wait...


11 posted on 08/05/2025 2:03:27 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I wonder if the murdered girl friend and her daughters cried out in pain when they were killed? I bet this nice man put them permanently to sleep with no pain at all with tender loving compassion. /s/


12 posted on 08/05/2025 2:03:58 PM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I wonder how his THREE innocent victims cried out in pain while he was murdering them? Did he forget to use anesthesia on them first?


13 posted on 08/05/2025 2:04:15 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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awwwwwwwwwwww poor loaf..here let me pretend to give a damn..yeah, Im not that good an actress, sorry


14 posted on 08/05/2025 2:04:25 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

In the old Cagney movie “Angels with Dirty Faces”, Cagney ends up on death row, but he is a hero to younger hoodlums. The priests suggests to Cagney that he is not the role model the young boys need. At first Cagney seems not to care, and plays it tough. But, as Cagney is dragged to the electric chair he starts to scream and cry and his last moments are spent in fear. The younger guys start to rethink their futures after that. The priest is satisfied.

On the flip side, I think death row inmates are visited by activists who tell them that the death penalty is in place today only because it is “painless”. But — if you scream out in pain at the end, maybe people will believe you and decide that the death penalty is barbaric. In short: the inmates who scream at the end are faking, in my opinion.


15 posted on 08/05/2025 2:04:55 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

That quote is from an attorney. And that attorney is, at best, a fool.

Gentle and kind people donโ€™t kill innocent people. And especially not children.


16 posted on 08/05/2025 2:05:14 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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Yeah, I remember wincing after I was sedated for carotid surgery.....

You're lucky you never had a horrible colonoscopy. The worse experience in my life was waking up and farting endlessly.....

Well, drinking all that crap the night before wasn't very pleasant either.....LOL!

17 posted on 08/05/2025 2:05:41 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Why can't you tickle yourself?)
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Maybe a televised firing squad would be better. Aim for the defibrillator.


18 posted on 08/05/2025 2:05:46 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Gotta love how the NYP selectively omitts their comment section whenever a black is involved in the article..


19 posted on 08/05/2025 2:07:32 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Hot Tabasco

Done it several times. Yeww! ‘Butt’ nothing of concern ever found. Couple beer cans, some change...... ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘


20 posted on 08/05/2025 2:07:45 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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