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Amanda Knox, a college student in the early 2000s, became internationally associated with the murder of her roommate—a murder ...

Boes has ferociously maintained her innocence since her confession, which followed a ten-hour interrogation in 2002.

The Justice Department is pressing the CIA to publicly reveal the specific interrogation methods authorized by the Bush administration for a handful of senior al Qaeda captives, senior department ...

A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday examined the evolution of interrogation tactics developed for terrorist suspects and how they apply to U.S. law. A Senate panel today tried to get to ...

Newly released documents and interviews portray the civilian leadership at the Pentagon as urgently concerned that al Qaeda and Taliban detainees might have information that could prevent terrorist ...

Matthew Alexander led the interrogation team that tracked down al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006. Alexander, a critic of the harsh techniques employed by the military during the ...

The Senate Armed Services Committee is trying to determine how and when U.S. interrogators began using harsh methods as they questioned terrorism suspects at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at Guantanamo ...

Even as the Pentagon issues new interrogation techniques prohibiting certain tactics used in the past, the White House is asking Congress to legalize some of the same tactics. This is WEEKEND EDITION ...

The state’s highest court is deciding whether New Haven cops coerced a confession out of a man serving a lifetime murder sentence — and in the process deciding how far detectives can go in an ...

Some of the most vehement critics of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” are standing behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), despite accusations that she didn’t speak up forcefully ...

There are few issues in the United States that divide public opinion like the death penalty. Whether you are in favor of capital punishment you should agree that it applies only to the guilty. Nothing ...