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Confessions are poor evidence, eye witnesses are unreliable,
供認是不足的證據目擊證人是不可信賴的
torture is the procedure like the ordeals of earlier eras by which it is sometimes learned whether an interrogate knows anything vital.
酷刑就和過去的酷刑折磨一樣有時候只是用來確認受審者是不是掌握了重要信息
Yet as Henry Shue noted, the so called uncooperative suspects like Marie who know nothing have no convincing way to demonstrate that, to a torturer.
但是正如Henry Shue所提到的所謂的像Améry這樣拒絕合作的嫌疑人并不知道什么信息卻也沒有辦法向審問者表明這一點
The danger is that the ignorant will be tortured to death by enthusiastic interrogators.
這里的危險就在于在審問者的嚴刑拷打下并不知道信息的人會被折磨致死
Daschuitz critics such as Seamus Miller site problems of creating a torture culture complete with torture training schools.
Dershowitz的批評者如Seamus Miller指出創造出一種酷刑文化的問題還有專門的酷刑
Torture cultures are hard to dismantle.
學校酷刑文化是難以解除的
Miller and even Shue suggest that nevertheless it might be morally justifiable for individual private or official to defy a torture ban
Miller甚至是Shue都建議說盡管如此個體或者官員違抗酷刑禁令可能在道德上也能站得住腳
and that without changing the law courts might justifiable commute most of the sentence.
不改變法律的話法庭也許可以以正當理由減輕大多數的刑罰
Miller suggests that as penalty for justified defilers a day in jail.
Miller建議給違反禁令者監禁一天的處罰
Although he closes imagined defiance one off.
盡管他直接無視了一次性的違反
Miller's proposal is also a policy,on Vietnam written in to law.
Miller的提議也是一個政策在越南寫入法律
Dashuitzs critics appear to disagree with Dashuitzs on which is worse, an open torture culture or subversive one.
Dershowitz的批評者似乎在某一點上意見相左即開放的和顛覆性的酷刑文化哪個更糟糕
Something like the problems that were also identified 50 years ago with what he called tarnishing the innocent in extraordinary circumstances, Burden Millers proposal for subverting a torture ban.
50年前這樣的問題也被只出過當時Burden Millers將其稱之為在極端情況下玷污無辜者他因此提出推翻酷刑禁令
What check, Rolls asked, is there on officials who have authority to tallish.
Rolls卻問道對于有權玷污無辜者的警官有什么核查嗎
