The story of a Tennessee death row inmate’s heart implant, and attempts to get it disabled before his execution, has gotten even more complicated.

The Tennessee Department of Correction is scheduled to execute Byron Black on Aug. 5, but court challenges regarding the case are still playing out.

Former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison was sentenced in federal court Monday for his actions during the fatal raid on Breonna Taylor’s apartment.

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to disable a death row inmate's heart implant before he undergoes a lethal injection. Byron Black is scheduled to be executed in early August.

Two women died Sunday at a Kentucky church in a shooting spree that began when a state trooper was wounded after making a traffic stop, police said. The suspect in both shootings was also killed.

Tuesday's verdicts and recommended prisons sentences end the trial that begin in Warren County on June 24.

A jury in Bowling Green has handed down guilty verdicts Tuesday on all counts for two men on trial for the murder of Bardstown mother Crystal Rogers.

After calling six witnesses over two days, the defense has rested its case in the Crystal Rogers murder trial. The jury will return on Monday to hear closing statements in the trial of Brooks Houck and co-defendant Joseph Lawson.

Inmates from Graves County will now be housed at the Christian County Jail for the foreseeable future under an agreement announced last week.

Abrego, who the government admitted was wrongly deported to El Salvador, faces two human smuggling charges in Nashville federal court