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At the Catholic church, the priests haven't seen Saturday confession lines like these in years. "I think the war is unjust," says Father Thomas Davis, who has worn out both ears listening to Marines. "But these young men have no choice. I try to send them off with some...
Reversible Errors is based in part on Turow’s own experience in Illinois. Although all of the facts surrounding Gandolph’s crime have been invented, the basic premise of the situation—a confessed and condemned murder suddenly begins pleading innocence, and another convict claims...
It was a chilling disclosure. Until now, attacks against U.S. outposts in Afghanistan have been haphazard. Bands of pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas would engage in shoot-and-run assaults, such as lobbing a single wildly aimed mortar round and then hightailing it over the mountains. These strikes typically...
Some of those accused of the bombings, however, paint a very different picture. The 27-page confession to local police by Ali Gufron, better known by his J.I. code name Mukhlas, refers to the time he met bin Laden in Afghanistan during a three-year stay there. In the confession...
After 16 years of wearing prison-issue denim, Madison Hobley barely had time to change into the suit his wife had brought him before he was rushed out of the gate last week by Illinois officials, an exonerated man. Condemned to death for the murder of his first wife, baby...