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Tennessee inmate says he hurt badly during lethal injection without deactivating defibrillator
This undated booking photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Byron Black. (Tennessee Department of Corrections via AP, File) NASHVILLE, Tenn. - 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 attorney said they will review data kept by the device as part of an autopsy. Black died at 10:43 a.m., prison officials said. It was about 10 minutes after the execution started and Black talked about being in pain. Black looked around the room as the execution started and could be heard sighing and breathing heavily. All seven media witnesses to the execution agreed he appeared to be in discomfort. Black was executed after a back-and-forth in court over whether officials would need to turn off his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD. Black, 69, was in a wheelchair, suffering from dementia, brain damage, kidney failure, congestive heart failure and other conditions, his attorneys have said. The nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center said it's unaware of any other cases in which an inmate was making similar claims to Black's about ICDs or pacemakers. Black's attorneys said they haven't found a comparable case, either. Black killed his girlfriend and her 2 daughters Black was convicted in the 1988 shooting deaths of his girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her two daughters, Latoya Clay, 9, and Lakeisha Clay, 6. Prosecutors said he was in a jealous rage when he shot the three at their home. At the time, Black was on work-release while serving time for shooting Clay's estranged husband. Clay's sister said Black will now have to take up what he did with a higher power. 'His family is now going through the same thing we went through 37 years ago. I can't say I'm sorry because we never got an apology,' Linette Bell, Angela Clay's sister, said in a statement read by a victim's advocate after the execution. Black's lawyer said the execution was shameful. 'Today, 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,' attorney Kelley Henry said. The legal fight over Black's defibrillator In mid-July, a trial court judge agreed with Black's attorneys that officials must have the defibrillator deactivated to avert the risk that it could cause unnecessary pain and prolong the execution. But the state Supreme Court intervened Thursday to overturn that decision, saying the other judge lacked authority to order the change. The state disputed that the lethal injection would cause Black's defibrillator to shock him and said he wouldn't feel them regardless. Henry said Black's defense team will carefully review autopsy results, EKG data from Black and information from the defibrillator to determine what exactly happened during the execution. She said she was especially concerned about his head movement and complaints of pain because the massive dose of pentobarbital used to kill inmates is supposed to rapidly leave them unconscious. 'The fact that he was able to raise his head several times and express pain tells you that the pentobarbital was not acting the way the state's experts claim it acts,' Henry said. Prison officials did not comment on witnesses and Black's attorney saying he appeared conscious or his complaints of pain. It was Tennessee's second execution since May, after a pause for five years, first because of COVID-19 and then because of missteps by state corrections officials. Twenty-eight men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and eight other people are scheduled to be put to death in seven states during the remainder of 2025. The number of executions this year exceeds the 25 carried out last year and in 2018. It is the highest total since 2015, when 28 people were put to death. Black's condition Black had an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, which is a small, battery-powered electronic device that is surgically implanted in the chest. It served as a pacemaker and an emergency defibrillator. Black's attorneys have stated that to ensure it's off, a doctor must place a programming device over the implant site, sending it a deactivation command, with no surgery required. The legal case also spurred a reminder that most medical professionals consider participation in executions a violation of health care ethics. Intellectual disability claim In recent years, Black's legal team has unsuccessfully tried to get a new hearing over whether he is intellectually disabled and ineligible for the death penalty under U.S. Supreme Court precedent. His attorneys have said that if they had delayed a prior attempt to seek his intellectual disability claim, he would have been spared under a 2021 state law. Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk contended in 2022 that Black is intellectually disabled and deserved a hearing under that 2021 law, but the judge denied it. That is because the 2021 law denies a hearing to people on death row who have already filed a similar request and a court has ruled on it 'on the merits.' In Funk's attempt, he focused on input from an expert for the state in 2004 who determined back then that Black didn't meet the criteria for what was then called 'mental retardation.' But she concluded that Black met the new law's criteria for a diagnosis of intellectual disability. Black also sought a determination by the courts that he was incompetent to be executed. By Jonathan Mattise. Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this story.
CBC
24 minutes ago
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2nd-degree murder count laid against man in downtown London stabbing
A second-degree murder charge has been laid against a 30-year-old London man following a stabbing in the city's downtown on Sunday that police say involved two people not known to one another. Emergency crews were called to the area of Colborne Street and Princess Avenue around 1 p.m. on Sunday for a reported stabbing, and located a man with serious, life-threatening injuries. He was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The suspect fled the scene on foot. The accused, identified as Khamis Toto, 30, of London, was arrested a short distance away, and appeared in court on Monday on a charge of second-degree murder. He'll return to court on Aug. 11. "Investigators have determined that the accused and the victim were not known to each other," police said. It's one of two homicides reported in the city by police on Sunday. Two London teens, 15 and 17, have been charged with second-degree murder after a 27-year-old man sustained fatal injuries in an assault near Breton Park Crescent and Manitoulin Drive around 1:40 a.m. Police had been called to the area following reports of a group of people fighting with weapons. Both homicides remain under investigation.
CBC
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N.S. man found guilty of murder in death of fellow convicted killer at N.B. prison
A Nova Scotia man serving time for murder has been found guilty of killing an inmate also serving a murder sentence in a New Brunswick prison in 2022. Christian Enang Clyke was found guilty Tuesday of second-degree murder. A judge ruled he killed Richard Alan King on Oct. 6, 2022, at the Atlantic Institution, a maximum security prison in Renous, southwest of Miramichi. Court of King's Bench Justice Fred Ferguson rejected Clyke's testimony that he stabbed King 10 times in self-defence. "I find that Mr. Clyke's testimony at trial is not credible, it's not reliable, it's not believable," Ferguson said while delivering the verdict Tuesday in Miramichi. Clyke is serving a sentence for second-degree murder in the 2011 death of Angela Hall in Dartmouth. He is appealing his conviction. King was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder in the 2006 death of Shawn Tomah in Woodstock, N.B. Clyke is also awaiting a decision in a separate case on charges alleging that he and Justin Bourque, who killed three Mounties in Moncton in 2014, stabbed an inmate in May 2022. Ferguson's 110-page decision in King's death says evidence presented over the four-day trial in June established the victim and Clyke entered another inmate's cell in the prison around around suppertime on Oct. 6, 2022. During the 12 seconds they were in the cell, King was stabbed seven times. Surveillance video from outside the cell showed King emerge with what appeared to be blood on his face and shirt, followed by Clyke stabbing him three more times in the upper chest. King was alive while en route to hospital but didn't survive. Claimed life threatened over drug deal Clyke told police in December 2022 that he was the only person involved in King's death and gave investigators a detailed description the judge found was corroborated by video and autopsy evidence. Clyke testified during his trial that he acted in self-defence. Clyke testified that he and King had planned for $3,500 worth of drugs to be dropped into the prison from a drone. When the deal fell apart, Clyke alleged King sent a note threatening to kill him unless the deal was resurrected. Clyke told police he entered the cell with King after overhearing King mentioning his name to others, believing King was blaming him for what happened. But the judge rejected Clyke's testimony at trial, writing it was "at complete odds to what he told the investigating officers" in 2022 about what unfolded. "I find Mr. Clyke's testimony is not believable," Ferguson said Tuesday. Appeal could affect sentencing Clyke is tentatively set to be sentenced Oct. 28. However, the judge and Crown prosecutor said that it could be rescheduled as Clyke's appeal of the Halifax case unfolds. Clyke said his appeal should be heard in the fall. The outcome of the appeal could affect Clyke's sentence. Ferguson said if his conviction is upheld, King would be Clyke's second murder and he wouldn't be eligible for parole for at least 25 years. However, if the conviction is overturned, the judge will have to determine whether Clyke can become eligible for parole within 10 years.
