And "Guilty Hearts," on CBS tomorrow and Wednesday nights, is just that: a slow slog of a melodrama.
When we heard "not guilty," our hearts broke collectively.
He concluded his statement to the court by claiming that he was "not guilty, with all my heart and soul".
That is why all those fixtures of the old criminal law, the guilty mind, the malign heart, actual or presumed malice, the common experience of prudent men, seem so out of place in the Calley case.
The threat alone that the world's leaders gathering in London this week might finger tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions as guilty parties at the heart of the collapse of the financial system has produced progress of sorts.
I was glad that such a worthy book won the Waterstone's children's book prize, a realistic story with a teenager's guilty torment at the heart of the story rather than yet another paranormal love story.
We can simply never have 100percentt certainly that the man we tether to a gurney in order to facilitate the stopping of his heart is guilty.
You delivered the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few, the corrupt into the hands of the pure in heart, the guilty into the hands of the innocent.... Then Your children came into Your shrine, cleansed Your Temple, purified Your sanctuary, and kindled lights in Your sacred courts.
"In my heart I feel guilty and constantly blame myself," he said.
Sick at heart and too guilty to contact Anne, Tom has succumbed to a reckless life of self-indulgence.
