Why innocent suspects may confess to a crime
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 14:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Why would anyone falsely confess to a crime they didn't commit? It seems illogical, but according to The Innocence Project, there have been 266 post-conviction DNA exonerations since 1989 -- 25 percent of which involved a false confession. A new study may shed light on one reason for those false confessions.