Salon.com > YouGov http://www.salon.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:24:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Torture grows in popularity http://www.salon.com/2012/10/03/torture_grows_in_popularity/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/03/torture_grows_in_popularity/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:26:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13028917 An increasing number of Americans support the torture of terror suspects, according to a new survey from YouGov.

When asked the very same set of questions posed in 2007 and 2005 polls, respondents this year answered more positively in favor of both torture and the use of nuclear weapons. Forty-one percent of the 1,000 individuals asked advocated for the use of torture on prisoners (a rise of seven percentage points since 2007). A quarter of respondents would be willing to use nuclear weapons to strike terrorists.

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