| When the United States ratified the Convention Against Torture, we promised to extradite or prosecute those who commit, or are complicit in torture. We have two federal criminal statutes for torture prosecutions--the Torture Statute and the War Crimes Act (torture is considered a war crime under US law). The Torture Convention is unequivocal: nothing, including a state of war, can be invoked as a justification for torture. |
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