The program, called Fugitive Safe Surrender, is the fifth effort of its kind by the Marshals Service, which works with local police officers, churches, public defenders and judges.
In the three years that the program, called Fugitive Safe Surrender, has been in existence, more than 17,000 people have turned themselves in at churches from Nashville to Rochester.
(Fewer than 1percentt said they didn't like surrendering at a church, and the program offers alternative sites for them).
Despite the program's rigidity, I seemed to be able to surrender to the routine of it.
Now, after more than 20 years of producing "Bobby Jones Gospel, Mr. Joness has surrendered some of his control of the program.
Law enforcement officials resisted the program as excessively lenient, and questioned whether the men who surrendered really repented, according to a report by the International Crisis Group.
The 628 yards of total offense by the A&M offense were the most ever surrendered by an Alabama defense in the history of the program.
Fugitive Safe Surrender caught the American Civil Liberties Union's eye early on, said Flannery, an adviser to the program.
Despite the violence on Sunday, Dr. Allawi spoke enthusiastically of the progress in the weapons surrender program.
As one of the 118 engineers and scientists of the German V-2 missile program who surrendered to Americans toward the end of the war, Dr. Stuhlinger played the quiet, behind-the-scenes scientist to the more charismatic Dr. von Braun.
