Riverbend Maximum Security Institution Photo: Daniel Meigs Mar 10, 2025 Mar 10, 2025 Updated Aug 6, 2025 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp LinkedIn SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, which houses the state's death row population Photo: Daniel Meigs Tags Byron Black Executions Lethal Injection Death Penalty Death Row Kelley Henry Riverbend Maximum Security Prison Angela Clay As featured on Attorney says Byron Black was ‘tortured’ in painful execution Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without deactivating it Facebook Twitter WhatsApp LinkedIn SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Trending CoreCivic CEO resigns due to cancer diagnosis Houston's co-founder Joe Ledbetter dies at 81 Birmingham developer buys raw land in Bellevue Predators' opening-night roster has an unusual look Demo permit issued related to long-planned Midtown project
Attorney says Byron Black was ‘tortured’ in painful execution Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without deactivating it