On AlterNet: false confessions
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "false confessions"
Jeffrey Deskovic, AlterNet. September 16, 2008.
I went to jail as a teenager for a rape and murder I didn't commit. Here are the reforms necessary to make sure it does not happen again.
Kim Sengupta, Independent UK. May 19, 2008.
Pervez Kambaksh, 24, was allegedly convicted and sentenced to death in a closed-door, four-minute trial in which he was denied legal representation.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. October 2, 2007.
The confession makes a guilty verdict almost automatic. So why are many "suspects" making false confessions?