Many people, including voters, reporters, and crime writers, still confuse coroners with medical examiners. Wherever you live in America, if you die a violent or unexpected death, one of these two will investigate. At least one-third of Americans live in counties where they choose (elect) their own coroner. Everyone else either lives in a medical…
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Heat-Related Mortality: How to Measure Heat Doom
If we don’t know the extent of a problem, we can’t or won’t do much to fix it. That’s what’s going on with heat-related mortality. Until we know how many people are dying of heat exposure and who they are, most government officials and policymakers can and will ignore the existential danger of extreme heat….
Revival of Coroner Inquests brings Transparency to Deaths in Custody
Eduardo Lee Hoover, Junior, age 38, sat in his pick-up truck, boxed in by four police cars after a chase in Washington County, PA. One officer shot into the front of the vehicle, trying to disable it. Office Tyler Evans, behind the truck, fatally shot Hoover in the back of the head and neck. Hoover,…