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A US soldier – as opposed to a trained aviator – has planned and executed real-world missions in military exercises with Lockheed Martin Sikorsky’s Optionally Piloted (OPV) Black Hawk helicopter, Lockheed Martin announced on 30 October 2025. The missions were actually conducted in August 2025 during the US Army reserve component readiness exercise ‘Northern Strike […]
Facebook Tweet Email Link Nashville AP  — An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the lethal injection began, according to several witnesses. Byron Black was put to death despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals took effect. His […]
It is not yet clear what caused the apparent pain. Black’s attorneys have said they will review the data kept by the device as part of the autopsy. Black was convicted of fatally shooting his 29-year-old girlfriend Angela Clay and her two daughters, Latoya Clay, 9, and Lakeisha Clay, 6. He maintained his innocence, but […]
Watch: “This is barbaric” – Protesters weigh in on Byron Black’s execution as victim’s’family celebrates The US state of Tennessee has executed an inmate despite concerns that a heart implant would shock him back to life, potentially causing extreme pain during the lethal injection. Byron Black, 69, convicted of a triple homicide in 1989, was […]
A triple-killer has become the first man to be executed with a working defibrillator implanted in his chest Byron Black, 69, was put to death in Tennessee without the defibrillator being deactivated. There were concerns the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals took effect. A bid to delay the execution was denied […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to restore his heartbeat could repeatedly shock him as he’s put to death. The device – an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD – is […]
Tennessee’s Supreme Court says Byron Black’s execution can proceed amid worries that a medical device may prolong his death. A court in the United States has ruled that the southern US state of Tennessee can move forward with the execution of a man with an implanted defibrillator, despite concerns that the device could result in […]
A court in the United States has ruled that the southern US state of Tennessee can move forward with the execution of a man with an implanted defibrillator, despite concerns that the device could result in a botched execution. The case before the Tennessee Supreme Court on Thursday concerned Byron Black, currently on death row […]
Columbia, South Carolina CNN  — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, by the South Carolina Department of Corrections on Friday is only the fourth firing squad […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw as preferable to the electric chair or lethal injection. Three volunteer prison employees used rifles to carry […]