This article focuses solely on the role of prosecutors in this process, and the extent to which prosecutorial misconduct has contaminated the entire death penalty process, especially in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities.

A lawyer representing the family of a Seneca teenager who was shot by police Sunday night said the autopsy shows that Zachary Hammond was shot from behind and his car was not moving, contrary to police reports

Earlier this month, a Lakota woman, was jailed on an alleged bond violation over a driving infraction. Her pleas for help allegedly fell on deaf ears and she died in jail.

New York City police said they believe a 23-year-old man smoked synthetic pot before he jumped off a pier in the West Village and drowned Wednesday.

The officer, Ray Tensing, is accused of killing Mr. DuBose during a traffic stop near the campus on July 19.

Death never comes knocking. It is inevitable. You never know what is going to happen next. These people have stories that will give you goosebumps. By a mass verdict, the biggest fear of people is to die and nobody gives a damn. Discovered years after they were dead, what were left of these people were bones and a foul smell. Some were in such a decomposed state that it was almost impossible to identify them. These chilling stories of people discovered years later their death will give you the hardest time in your life. 

A man suspected of shooting at a Florida Highway Patrol trooper was located Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

I look forward eagerly, almost greedily, to the weekly arrival of journals like Nature and Science, and turn at once to articles on the physical sciences — not, as perhaps I should, to articles on biology and medicine.

Faigy Mayer, 30, was an iOS developer and the founder of New York startup Appton.

Bizarre fatalities and the limitations of the data revolution emerge from a review of CDC records

Inside the autopsy lab, pathologists talk about the emotional rewards of medicine's most-maligned specialty—and what it's like to work side-by-side with death. By Rachel Wilkinson.

Another beautiful piece of music. Unlike the last song that is about hope, I believe this song embodies loss and overcoming it. Really emotional from beginning to end. The movie is fantastic too, but really out there.

Jennifer Glass was a newlywed when she was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. "I'm doing everything I can to extend my life," she says, while advocating for a right-to-die law in California.

An appeals court made the ruling on Wednesday, prompted by the case of a Staten Island forensic pathologist who kept the brain of a 17-year-old car crash victim

The breakdown of our bodies after death can be fascinating – if you dare to delve into the details.

Stairway to Heaven by photographer Noriko Hayashi explores the ways in which Japan is dealing with the issue of real estate for the deceased.

There are growing fears that human rights abuses in Iran are being overshadowed by the ongoing nuclear talks, highlighted by the death of a young Iranian who set fire to himself in protest against the government last week. Ahwazi Arab and father of two Younes al-Asakirah, 34, died last Sunday as a result of his burns, which he received when he set himself ablaze to protest against the government who had confiscated his fruit and vegetable stall earlier in March.

There’s an ugliness — an inelegance — to death that Paul Bennett gradually came to find unacceptable. It seems to offend him the way a clumsy, counterintuitive kitchen tool might, or a frumpy font. At first, that disgruntlement was just “a whisper in my mind,” Bennett explains. “But it’s gone from being a whisper to a roar.” The solution, when it finally occurred to him, felt obvious. “Oh,” he told himself. “You need to redesign death.”

The tragic death of a mother-of-two caused by an allergic reaction to hair dye has raised serious questions about its use in conjunction with henna tattooing. Estate agent Julie McCabe, 38, went into a coma in October 2011 after she suffered a massive allergic reaction to a chemical in her L’Oréal dye and died a year later. North Yorkshire coroner Geoff Fell heard expert evidence that a black henna tattoo that Mrs McCabe had in Dubai in 2007 could have contributed to her death.

A Pennsylvania university student and basketball player likely inhaled chewing gum into her lungs while asleep before being found dead in her dormitory over the weekend. The Washington County coroner's office said 21-year-old Shanice Clark of Toronto was found unresponsive at about 3 a.m. Sunday at California University of Pennsylvania. University officials said they were "deeply saddened" by the death of the 6-foot senior forward, who was...