In 1995, Daniel Taylor was convicted of a double murder in Chicago in what seemed to be a clear-cut case: he gave police a signed confession. But now his supporters — including Northwestern University ...

In criminal trials, a defendant's admission of guilt can trump even the proverbial smoking gun. A confession is the ideal civic solution: The perpetrator takes responsibility, and the public sleeps ...

Two men who were sent to prison for decades at 17 years old after NYPD officers pushed them to serve up false murder confessions saw their names cleared in Manhattan on Thursday. Brian Boles and ...

It is time for New York state to make a confession of its own: innocent people don't confess to crimes they didn't commit unless they are coerced, and a confession to a crime one didn't commit ought ...