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“That initiates a five-minute waiting period, after which the curtain closes again to obscure a doctor, who enters the death chamber, checks the prisoner's pulse, and certifies the death.”

“Lin, who is a non-smoker, tells students he considers himself lucky — even hopeful: "I think the future is really bright, because we're creating all of these personalized, specialized precision therapeutics for lung cancer," he says."My hope is if we're not…”

“From April through October every year, Hess is confronted with an increasingly obvious and dramatic problem: His morgue drawers fill with people who died sooner than they should have because of Arizona's suffocating heat.”