Sentences with phrase «n't extract a confession»

In the Season 2 finale, tragic news for the Borgia family is followed by a shocking revelation from Cesare; Lucrezia surprises herself by falling for a new suitor, Alfonso of Aragon, and accepts his proposal of marriage; Cesare tortures the rebel leader Savonarola but can't extract a confession, so he fakes one and burns the heretic; the assassin finally strikes with a poisoned chalice of wine.

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In a conclusion similar to that of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report, he says that torture is an excellent way to extract a false confession but not to gain accurate intelligence.

Teaching Catholic non-fiction does not mean teaching theology (or hagiography) but that does not mean that great Catholic theologians and priests need be excluded from the curriculum either: there could well be room for extracts from St. Augustine's Confessions or Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan's The Road of Hope when looking at autobiographical writing, for instance.

What the Court did not perhaps envision is what transpired in R. v. Welsh, where the communication was made to a police officer posing as a religious figure, who pressured those involve to adopt the faith, and then used this believe to extract a confession.

The confession in Wells did not involve an e-mail, but rather a statement forced by a parent using violence to extract the confession.