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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... threat is posed to our safety; no to torture anytime, anywhere; no to torturing anyone; no to torture. I can only hope and plead and pray that a day will come when the very question of torture will have been forever abolished from our ...
... threat is posed to our safety; no to torture anytime, anywhere; no to torturing anyone; no to torture. I can only hope and plead and pray that a day will come when the very question of torture will have been forever abolished from our ...
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... threat posed by Iraq to American national security. Even opponents of the Iraq war (like myself) are reluctant to say that it would have been “better” had Saddam Hussein in effect been left free to continue torturing his enemies, a ...
... threat posed by Iraq to American national security. Even opponents of the Iraq war (like myself) are reluctant to say that it would have been “better” had Saddam Hussein in effect been left free to continue torturing his enemies, a ...
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... threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.” The word “whatsoever” is powerful indeed. Every constitutional lawyer is aware that the assertion of “compelling ...
... threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.” The word “whatsoever” is powerful indeed. Every constitutional lawyer is aware that the assertion of “compelling ...
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... threat of imminent death; or ( ) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind altering substances or other procedures calculated ...
... threat of imminent death; or ( ) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind altering substances or other procedures calculated ...
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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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