Torture Can Be Useful, Nearly Half of Americans in Poll Say (Published 2016)

An inmate at the United States prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in October. President-elect Donald J. Trump’s campaign vows to reinstate the use of torture — and to fill Guantánamo with “some bad dudes” — have human rights experts fearing that authoritarian regimes will see it as a green light to carry out their own abuses.Credit...John Moore/Getty Images UNITED NATIONS — Nearly half of Americans i