{"id":6103,"date":"2025-09-29T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:46:14","slug":"inmate-screams-in-pain-as-state-refuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6103","title":{"rendered":"Inmate screams in pain as state refuses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Execution After Decades<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Byron Black was executed by lethal injection in Tennessee, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>nearly 40 years after killing his girlfriend Angela Clay, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29, and her daughters, Latoya, 9, and Lakeisha, 6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors said he acted in a \u201cjealous rage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Crimes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In 1988, Black shot Angela and her daughters while on work release for shooting Angela\u2019s estranged husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cMy kids, they were babies,\u201d Bennie Clay said. \u201cThey never got the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Execution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>During the procedure, Black cried out, \u201cOh, it\u2019s hurting so bad,\u201d raising concerns his defibrillator caused unnecessary suffering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His lawyer argued, \u201cI interpret that my client was tortured today.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state Supreme Court had overturned a lower court\u2019s order to deactivate the device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Family Reactions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Angela\u2019s sister Linette Bell said, \u201cI can\u2019t say I\u2019m sorry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>, because we never got an apology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Others online felt his suffering was deserved: \u201cFinally felt just a little of what he put others through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Execution After Decades Byron Black was executed by lethal injection in Tennessee, nearly 40 years after killing his girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her daughters, Latoya, 9, and Lakeisha, 6. Prosecutors said he acted in a \u201cjealous rage.\u201d The Crimes In 1988, Black shot Angela and her daughters while on work release for shooting Angela\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6105,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions\/6105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}