Torture is a Moral Issue

In this hard-hitting volume two dozen scholars, activists, military officers, and religious leaders call for an immediate end to the practice of torture, paying particular attention to its use in the American war on terror.

Torture Is a Moral Issue begins with background material, including vivid firsthand accounts from a torture survivor and a former U.S. interrogator in Iraq. The heart of the book contains respectively Christian, Jewish, and Muslim arguments against torture, and the final part charts a way forward toward a solution, offering much principled yet practical advice. Included as an afterword is an interview with Darius Rejali, one of the world's foremost experts on torture and democracy.

Contributors:

Taha Jabir Alalwani

William T. Cavanaugh

John Conroy

Edward Feld

David P. Gushee

Yahya Hendi

Scott Horton

George Hunsinger

Adm. John Hutson

Tony Lagouranis

Ellen Lippman

Ingrid Mattson

Ann Elizabeth Mayer

Marilyn McEntyre

Gen. Richard M. O'Meara

Dianna Ortiz

Darius Rejali

Louise Richardson

Kenneth Roth

Fleming Rutledge

Melissa Weintraub

Carol Wickersham