Tag: Constitution of the United States of America

Trials for Torturers

Re-banning torture is fine – but it’s hardly enough.

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Torture is one of those words that is just too easy to say.  The facility with which it slides off the tongue belies its terrible gravity.  

The act of torture is cruelty personified.  It is easily among the most horrific deeds of which we are capable.  What could be worse?  Murder and genocide I suppose…but little else.