Includes bibliographical references and index.

How common is the use of torture? -- Is torture morally wrong? -- Is torture an effective interrogation technique -- What should be the U.S. policy on torture?

Torture is a worldwide problem / Human Rights Watch -- Both civilized and less civilized countries use torture techniques / Lisa Hajjar -- Torture continues to be a problem in Asia / Basil Fernando -- Torture is still common in Brazil / Brazzil magazine -- Police in India frequently use torture / Rama Lakshmi -- Al Qaeda terrorists carried on Saddam Hussein's gruesome torture techniques in Iraq / Entifadh Qanbar -- Torture is morally reprehensible / Kim Petersen -- Torture is always morally wrong / David P. Gushee -- People around the world agree that torture is immoral / Mirela Xanthaki -- torture can be a moral means of saving lives / Mirko Bagaric -- Torture is moral when inflicted for a greater good / Patrick J. Buchanan -- Coercion at Guantánamo is not torture and is necessary / Aryeh Spero -- Torture is sometimes effective / Alan Dershowitz -- Torture has a place in the war on terror / Nicholas Davis -- Torture works as a social control / Naomi Klein -- It is a myth that torture works / Anne Applebaum -- Torture is neither justified nor effective / Mick Smith -- Torture ruins evidence that could be used to prosecute terrorists / Phillip Carter -- History shows torutre does not obtain the truth / Robert Fisk -- Stress techniques must be authorized in the War on Terror / Heather Mac Donald -- The United States should stop all forms of torture / Washington Monthly -- Torture should be made legal in extreme situations / Alan M. Dershowitz -- Torture should not be legally sanctioned / Jack Rabbit -- The United States should categorically ban torture but consider rare exceptions / Albert Mohler -- The United States should not attempt to codify exceptions to a ban on torture / Mark Bowden.