The Text of Magna Carta

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"(38) In future no official shall place a man on trial upon his own
unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth
of it."

In convicting and executing prisoners solely on the basis of confessions extracted under torture, the United States Government has dragged us all back to the Middle Ages. - Mike Rivero What Really Happened