‘Can’t Be Trusted’: In a State Scarred by Lynchings, Four Black Deaths and One Troubling Autopsy Finding Have Black Families Questioning Mississippi’s Medical Examiner
In a state with a long history of lynchings and racial injustice, advocates are raising concerns about Mississippi’s chief medical examiner and her rulings in several deaths involving Black residents in recent years. Dr. Staci Turner, a board-certified forensic pathologist, became Mississippi’s interim chief medical examiner in January 2021 and officially assumed the role in…
