Is the use of torture ever justified in dealing with criminals and terrorists?

Although it may seem a tad insensitive to say this,but there are indeed circumstances when the use of torture on dealing with terrorists and criminals has been justified.Sometimes,the use of torture on the criminals and terrorists is necessary to force them to disclose essential knowledge and informations to aid the police in criminal investigations.However,there is still a considerable number of people who are amazingly insistent and firm in their stand that torture,no matter what,can never be justified.

It is easy to justify anything that a person strongly believes in.That is why some people are convinced that it is justifiable to torture terrorists.They generally feel,and rightly too,that violence against innocents for whatever reason,unlike the use of torture on criminals,can never be justified.Ergo,in their own eyes,terrorists deserve to be tortured and should not be given any mercy.Furthermore,the police are trying to introduce legalised torture as an acceptable investigation tool and technique.They argued that the police should have every right to torture any serious crime offender whenever and wherever they were certain they had informations about other crimes.For example,in cases of kidnap,the police should have the right to torture the criminal should he/she refused to reveal informations about the victim's whereabout.This is crucial so that the police could rescue the victim.

On the other hand,this has been disputed by certain people who think that torture,in every sense,is morally and ethically prohibited.They do not trust the use of torture to be effective in any real-life situations.In fact,they believe that if the police cant gt any information from the criminals,it will be fruitless for them even if they force the criminals through se of torture.They think that the use of torture is a lousy solution and that this solution could turn out to be a big problem-moral problem.