Torture: A CollectionSanford Levinson Oxford University Press, 28 oct. 2004 - 328 pagini Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet recent photographs from Abu Ghraib substantiated claims that the United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning relating to the war on terrorism that could be described as torture or, at the very least, as inhuman and degrading. In terror's wake, the use of such methods, at least under some conditions, has gained some prominent defenders, notably from within the White House. In this revised edition, Torture: A Collection brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the advisability of maintaining the absolute ban and to reflect on what it says about our societies if we do--or do not--adhere to it in all circumstances. New to this edition are essays by Charles Krauthammer and Andrew Sullivan on the adoption in 2005 of the McCain Amendment, which explicitly bars the use of torture and other cruel methods of interrogation. |
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... committed in Chile during the general's seventeen-year dictatorship, it was ultimately the crime of torture that ... committed by any head of state that are so vast and outrageous to qualify as a crime against the whole of humankind ...
... committed in Chile during the general's seventeen-year dictatorship, it was ultimately the crime of torture that ... committed by any head of state that are so vast and outrageous to qualify as a crime against the whole of humankind ...
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... committed; Spain, which was demanding extradition in the name of humanity; and England, where the arrest had taken ... committed against a body. It is also a crime committed against the imagination. Or rather, it presupposes, it requires ...
... committed; Spain, which was demanding extradition in the name of humanity; and England, where the arrest had taken ... committed against a body. It is also a crime committed against the imagination. Or rather, it presupposes, it requires ...
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... committed twenty-eight years ago, had then been inspired to finger one of his academic colleagues at the Catholic University as an interrogator in the infamous Estadio Nacional in Santiago, a certain political science professor named ...
... committed twenty-eight years ago, had then been inspired to finger one of his academic colleagues at the Catholic University as an interrogator in the infamous Estadio Nacional in Santiago, a certain political science professor named ...
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... committed mass murder, who had tortured children; what if we were invited to enjoy Eden all over again while one despicable human being was receiving over and over again the horrors he imposed on others? Would we answer no? Would we ...
... committed mass murder, who had tortured children; what if we were invited to enjoy Eden all over again while one despicable human being was receiving over and over again the horrors he imposed on others? Would we answer no? Would we ...
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... committing torture, while others, including Great Britain and Israel, have explicitly been found by courts to have engaged in the “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” also covered by the Convention. The European Court of Human Rights ...
... committing torture, while others, including Great Britain and Israel, have explicitly been found by courts to have engaged in the “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” also covered by the Convention. The European Court of Human Rights ...
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Philosophical Considerations | 45 |
Torture as Practiced | 91 |
Contemporary Attempts to Abolish Torture through Law | 143 |
Reflections on the PostSeptember 11 Debate about Legalizing Torture | 255 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 307 |
INDEX | 311 |
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