Murder Replaces Torture, Brilliant!

By David Swanson
April 8, 2010

I've been reading about the history of torture, including John T. Parry's new book Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity. Parry gives a history of torture in Europe and the United States through the twentieth century, establishing its pervasiveness, and the repetitiveness of the excuses and legalistic machinations used to allow it.

Read on.