Working on both sides of criminal law I came to appreciate, as many have for millennia, that conscience, as ministered to by religions, 12-step programs, and psychiatrists, and as dramatized by artists like Shakespeare, is an element of human nature. Alcohol and drugs can anesthetize it, but it lies beneath the skin, waiting to be skillfully brought to the surface. However, even when a murderer displays a desire to confess, it’s the heart and soul that want to confess. Meanwhile, every cell in the body doesn’t want to. That’s because it’s the body that will end up in jail or strapped to a
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