The medicolegal death investigation system is responsible for conducting death investigations and certifying the cause and manner of unnatural and unexplained deaths. Unnatural and unexplained deaths ...

Sabrina-Butler Smith lives in Memphis and serves on the board of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Thirty-four years ago, I was a Black teenage mother living on my own in Mississippi.

Accurate determinations of cause and manner of death are essential to the nation’s public health and legal systems. In both systems, the responsibility for determining and certifying cause and manner ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...