outsourcing

Can it get any more outrageous? My country is now outsourcing torture.

Then again, my country is still barbaric enough to put criminals to death. The more distance I gain from the US, the stranger the idea of legalized (re-legalized since 1976) murder becomes. Prison sentences seem much shorter here (to positive or negative effect, I don't know; they seem too short and fines too reasonable to my American sensibilities). But even the maximum sentence for serial killer Marc Dutroux was just lifetime imprisonment. There is no harsher sentence.