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He stressed Geneva Common Article 3 provisions.
They prohibit:
- "violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
- outrages of personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;"
- carrying out sentences or executions "without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples;" and
- caring for wounded and sick detainees.
In 2008, he said:
"From both a moral standpoint and a practical standpoint, torture is wrong. Barack Obama will end the use torture without exception. He also will eliminate the practice of extreme rendition, where we outsource our torture to other countries."
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