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'The Confessions'

Must-see TV on PBS Frontline tonight at 8 p.m. Central: A documentary titled "The Confessions." Here's the description:Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn?t commit? FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel (Innocence Lost, An Ordinary Crime) investigates the conviction of four Navy sailors for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Va., woman in 1997. In interviews with the sailors, Bikel learns of some of the high-pressure police interrogation techniques -- including the threat of the death penalty, sleep deprivation, and intimidation -- that led each of the ?Norfolk Four? to confess, despite a lack of evidence linking them to the crime. All four sailors are now out of prison -- one served his sentence and the other three were granted conditional pardons last summer -- but the men were not exonerated as felons or sex offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 09, 2010 (boomark / email).