#368 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Birmingham Six
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The thing about torture is that it works, at least if your only goal is to find a scapegoat.
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to Birmingham, England. In 1972, two pubs were bombed, and six innocent Irish men were tortured into giving false confessions. The Birmingham Six were freed in 1991, but the crime’s never been solved. To this day, the public demands to know who really planted those bombs.
This update shares the March 2022 court decision protecting one of the key tenants of journalism – anonymity.
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