Editor’s Note: Danny Cevallos, a CNN legal analyst, is a criminal defense attorney practicing in Philadelphia, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The recent death of the “snake-handling” pastor of ...

In a story Feb. 26 about a snake-handling preacher who recently died from a bite, The Associated Press reported erroneously the number of deaths each year from snake bites in the United States. Around ...

Condemned Pentecostal practice lives long enough to get its own reality TV show. 1) The practice began in 1910 when an illiterate Tennessee preacher tried to literally apply Mark 16:18: "They will ...

How should we respond to the news of the recent death of another snake-handling Christian? I can tell you a few ways that have been tried: condescension; amusement; disbelief; mockery; advocacy; and ...

Pastor Jamie Coots says his Pentecostal church is really not that different from other churches. "We sing, we preach, we testify, take up... Snake-Handling Preachers Open Up About 'Takin' Up Serpents' ...

A new documentary by a London media company shows a serpent-handling pastor being bit and injured by a venomous snake at a Kentucky church. University of Tennessee-Chattanooga professor Ralph Hood, ...

A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality show about snake-handling in church has died – of a snakebite. Jamie Coots died Saturday evening after refusing to be treated, Middlesboro police said. On ...

“Them That Follow,” the Appalachia-set drama about a snake-handling Pentecostal church, features several skin-crawling scenes of rattlesnakes slithering across congregants’ torsos in a bid to prove ...