Assertion: torture | /r/HasProperty | legal
Facets:
value: both
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Without any prosecutions the possibility remains that a future presidential administration could claim torture is legal and revive its practice.
text: The fact that torture was both legal and widely accepted meant that the existence of torture chambers was common knowledge, and they sometimes even served, along with public executions, as grim entertainment for the masses.