Torture
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Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties.
Captured Viet Cong soldier, blindfolded and tied in a stress position by American forces during the Vietnam War, 1967
While solitary confinement, life imprisonment without the prospect of parole, and corporal punishment have been challenged, imprisonment itself escapes scrutiny despite evidence it is harmful.
Two Elamite chiefs flayed alive after the Battle of Ulai, Assyrian relief
"The custody of a criminal does not require torture" by Francisco Goya, c. 1812
Charles Graner
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Charles A. Graner Jr. is an American former soldier and corrections officer who was court-martialed for prisoner abuse after the 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. Along with other soldiers
Torture
…torture, and its perpetrators justify the violence as a legitimate policing tactic; victims lack the resources or standing to seek redress. Perpetrators Charles Graner poses over Manadel al-Jamadi's corpse, after he was tortured to death by military police during detainment in Iraq. Since most research has focused on…
Graner posing over the body of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner who was tortured to death during interrogation in Abu Ghraib prison in November 2003
The picture of Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh which prompted the investigation
Graner and Lynndie England posing with Iraqi detainees placed into a human pyramid.
Graner poses over the dead body of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner.