Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When police kill someone, a medical examiner lists their cause of death—which plays a ...

Angela Harris Curry stood by her son’s grave and replayed the voicemail, the only noise in the quiet Fort Lauderdale cemetery aside from chirping birds. The message had come from a nurse who did not ...

“Excited delirium” is basically a theory that sometimes people can get so amped up, and so agitated that they just die. There are the things they left behind: Flip flops. Two champagne glasses ...

DENVER — Colorado is one step away from becoming only the second state in the country to ban use of the controversial term “excited delirium” in police training manuals and autopsy reports. The ...

California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human rights activist hailed as a ...

SACRAMENTO — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human rights activist hailed ...

Does a potentially fatal form of excitement – sometimes called “excited delirium” – exist? It’s hard to imagine there’s a debate about this because, yes, it exists without question. But two things are ...