Abstract
This Article seeks to convey that under no set of circumstances, including a ticking time bomb, is the use of torture permissible. Aside from being morally repugnant, both domestic and international law clearly establish that the use of torture on terrorist suspects is strictly prohibited. In order to move beyond out past administration’s mistakes, the United States must now reassert its protection of this most basic of human rights by denouncing the use of torture and by ensuring that state officials neither utilize nor encourage the use of torture on suspects. As so eloquently stated by Georgetown Law Professor David Luban, “[a]ssaults on human dignity are not who we are or what we stand for.” Or at least, it should not be.
Recommended Citation
Kovarovic, Kate
(2010)
"Our "Jack Bauer" Culture: Eliminating the Ticking Time Bomb Exception to Torture,"
Florida Journal of International Law: Vol. 22:
Iss.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/fjil/vol22/iss2/4