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In his latest book, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz suggested police and prosecutors might need "torture warrants" to elicit lifesaving information in an age of terrorism. In cases where a "ticking bomb" or other emergency existed, "The suspect would be given immunity from prosecution based on information elicited by torture.... The warrant would limit the torture to non-lethal means, such as sterile needles being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain without endangering life."

Recently, former New York City mayor Ed Koch endorsed the proposal, suggesting "we may have no choice ... in a world where the threat of use of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists looms larger by the day." Koch also solicited reactions from others, ...

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