Assertion: torture | /r/HasProperty | illegal
Facets:
value: under american law
type: OTHER
value: in most countries
type: LOCATION
value: at home
type: LOCATION
value: the u.n. convention against torture
type: OTHER
value: in times of peace
type: TEMPORAL
value: in times of war
type: TEMPORAL
value: within u.s. territorial bounds
type: LOCATION
value: under the geneva conventions
type: OTHER
value: always
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Why Torture Should Always Be Illegal
text: Don't you guys now that torturing is *illegal
text: Torture is illegal and punishable within U.S. territorial bounds.
text: Torture, the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain upon an individual to extract information or a confession, or as an illicit extrajudicial punishment, is prohibited by international law and is illegal in most countries.
text: In short, if torturing the terrorist is morally permissible absent questions of legality, the bare fact of torture being illegal does not render it morally impermissible.
text: Torture is illegal.
text: In most countries torture is illegal, and this being so, outside the normal framework for establishing guilt or innocence.
text: Torture is illegal, barbaric and inhumane, and can never be justified.
text: Torture is illegal.
text: Because torture is illegal.
text: To learn more about why torture is illegal, visit:
text: Torture, waterboarding and inhuman and degrading interrogation techniques are all illegal.
text: Torture is illegal, right?
text: Torture is not only illegal, it has had disastrous and far-reaching consequences: it has stained the U.S. government’s reputation and undermined its credibility to promote respect for human rights.
text: the difference between whether torture should be illegal and whether it is immoral’
text: Torture is illegal under the Geneva Conventions, the U.N. Convention Against Torture, the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Army Field Manual.
text: Indeed, most seasoned interrogators recognize that torture is not only immoral and illegal, but ineffective and unnecessary as well.
text: On the other hand those who reject the use of torture point out that torture is illegal under international law in times of peace and in times of war and therefore its unethical to torture human beings (Roth, 2005: xix)
text: Torture "was illegal then, and it’s illegal now
text: Torture is illegal under the framework of international law that the U.S. helped put in place after World War II.
text: Torture is also illegal under American law, and that was the case long before Congress codified President Obama’s interrogation rules last year.
text: Well, because torture is illegal.
text: You say it’s not torture because torture would be illegal, but you were told this was legal, even though it’s a technique that in the past has been called torture and that a lot of the world calls torture?
text: Torture is illegal: international laws prohibit the use of torture against anybody.
text: If torture is illegal at home, subcontract it overseas.
text: Torture has been illegal since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 while 156 countries have signed the UN Convention against Torture.
text: Torture - including waterboarding - is immoral and illegal.