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  • Essay / Analysis by Alan Dershowitz “Should the ticking bomb...

    On the contrary, when torture is acceptable, and when should it be practiced? The argument that permission to torture is a Sharde advisor's presumption that torture is happening now and will happen in the future, hence the. Torture plan and. Dershowitz believes in a formal, visible, accountable and controlled system that would ideally leave torture as a last resort. The system would start by granting immunity to the suspect. We then suspect that he would be forced to testify; if the suspect refused to exchange information, the next step would be to acknowledge the possibility of torture while still granting the option of immunity. In the event that a suspect refuses to exchange information, even if he enjoys immunity, a judicial warrant must be issued to proceed with deliberately obtained prosecution.