Sentence examples for confessions that from inspiring English sources

There have been murder confessions that later proved false.

Their convictions rested on confessions that lacked motive and were reportedly extracted by torture.

After vigorously denying the accusations they made videotaped confessions that were broadcast on television.

Two of the officers are accused of using torture to obtain confessions that were later thrown out in court.

One of the many spiritual confessions that William James records in The Varieties of Religious Experience stands out.

We have never abandoned this due process jurisprudence, and thus continue to exclude confessions that were obtained involuntarily.

But once the revelations start marching in, with confessions that explain how the characters got the way they are, credibility crumbles.

Psychological studies of confessions that have proved false show an overrepresentation of children, the mentally ill and mentally retarded, and suspects who are drunk or high.

In addition, he wrote several novels, including Söndagsbarn (1993; Sunday's Children) and Enskilda samtal (1996; Private Confessions), that were made into films.

The committee then secured permission to develop a Book of Confessions that would deal adequately with the problem of continuity and tradition and would include a new creed.

Mr. Sugaya's case, which involved forced confessions and flawed DNA tests, has shown just how far the authorities will go to obtain confessions that will ensure severe sentences.