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If we truly believe that it is wrong to convict innocent people, torture cannot be used. If we believe that people who are arrested have rights, torture cannot be used.
It is a fact that people can be badgered into telling lies even by persistent and suggestive interrogation techniques that are not considered torture. If you add in torture that is enough to break even the strong-willed, how accurate is anything such a person tells an interrogator? Sleep deprivation was the favoured method of Stalin's boys when he terrorized the USSR in the 1930s, and there was no need for any beating or burning, either. Leader after leader stood up before kangaroo courts, confessed to treason, and pointed the finger at other blameless people.
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Where there is a great deal of free speech, there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. - Winston S. Churchill
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