NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued a stay of execution for a second death row inmate because of the coronavirus pandemic. Byron Black’s execution was scheduled for Oct. 8, but the court moved it to April 8, 2021.
Tennessee Department of Correction
Attorneys for the 64-year-old Black had said the pandemic made it impossible to have a hearing on whether he is competent to be executed. Tennessee’s attorney general opposed Black’s motion to delay his execution.
Black was convicted by a Nashville court of murdering his girlfriend and her daughters in 1988.
