Pros Of Waterboarding

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Hundreds of years later, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights banned torture in all of the United Nations (warfare). The United States’ obligation under international law left them with no wiggle room. Torture and ill-treatment are prohibited always - even in war, natural disasters, and man-made catastrophes. It protects soldiers, criminals, spies, and terrorists (Rights). Despite this, the last known case of torture in the United States was in 2003, on a man arrested for allegedly being involved in making explosives. He died while being tortured (Myths). President Barack Obama made a statement about the C.I.A. using waterboarding, “I believe that waterboarding was torture and, whatever legal rationales were used, it …show more content…
This technique of water boarding, also known as water torture, was also used in Medieval times (Water).When the average person hears the word torture, they probably think of being burned at the stake, a person tied to a big spinning wheel like they see in the movies, or skinning a person alive. These techniques were used in medieval times, but the legislators of this era were also much more inventive. They had a huge range of categories that all of the techniques for cruel punishment fell into. A few of those categories are; restraint and confinement, animal torture, extreme hot and cold, physical damage, and even humiliation (Warfare). One method was called strappado, and itconsisted of tying the victim’s wrists together behind his back and being suspended by his arms from a bar. The victim was left there for hours, causing the shoulders to dislocate (Techniques). Records show that this method has also been used in more modern times. A similar method, called “drawn and quartered” happened when four soldiers on horseback tied the victim's limbs to ropes and pulled in opposite

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