A priest and a penitent demonstrate how a confession is conducted at a Catholic church in Salem, Ore., in this May 3, 2019, file photo. (Credit: Chaz Muth/CNS.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – A ...
In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take ...
This is the first post in a series. A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a ...
Imagine a justice system that recognises torture is wrong—but only sometimes. Picture a courtroom where a confession extracted from a terrified suspect can still be used for a conviction, depending on ...