Should Torture Be Allowed

Human rights are the most important ideas to be applied in international law. These rights are meant to preserve and protect the life of the innocent average person, however there is no standing way to determine when a right is violated, which means in many cases final rulings are based on the interpretation of human rights. A recent battle being waged over these rights is whether torture should be an acceptable method to extract information from terrorists, kidnappers, etc. Torture should be a usable legal practice when science fails and time is against the situation in order to gain valuable intel, however it should not go without intervention from the legal system. Tortures most useful perk is that it can be used to extract important knowledge about possible security threats. In a world
Torture should be legal, but not become the first option because the federal government has many different ways to interrogate such as the truth serum which is a drug that makes it nearly impossible to lie and psychological methods to crack silent criminals. Situations where torture would be acceptable would include limited resource and timed scenarios. The truth serum is effective, however it is not fully available to all police departments and psychological methods take an immense amount of time to conduct effectively. When the police decide to use torture they should have to go through the legal process by getting a warrant that permits them to torture. Clinton R. Van Zandt, a security consultant, says that “ the U.S. needs to establish a court at the national level before which the government could argue that torture was essential”. The creation of a governmental court would filter out the possibilities of torturing innocent men and keep officers from abusing their power. These provisions would protect non-guilty parties and help make torture more