Donald Trump suggests 'chopping off heads' might be a good torture technique

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in Plymouth, New Hampshire on Feb. 7, 2016. Reuters

Christians normally frown upon the practice of torture, but U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is definitely not one of them. The business magnate even revealed that "chopping people's heads off" might be a good torture technique to use.

During a recent interview with George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," Trump said if it were up to him, he would do worse than waterboarding, which is a form of torture where water is poured over a cloth covering the face of an individual, causing the person to experience the sensation of drowning.

"We're living in a world where, in the Middle East, they're cutting people's heads off. They're chopping a Christian's head off. And many of them, we talk about Foley, James Foley, and you know, what a wonderful young man. Boom, they're chopping heads," he said. "So then I went into this. I said, yes, I would bring back waterboarding. And I would make it a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding."

When asked what he meant by "worse than waterboarding," Trump then answered that it would be something really "effective."

"If we need information, George, you have our enemy cutting heads off of Christians and plenty of others, by the hundreds, by the thousands. You have to do it that way," Trump said. "And I'm not sure everybody agrees with me. I guess a lot of people don't."

Trump noted that the torture technique was implemented during the Medieval times, and that it needs to be brought back because "we are living in a time that's as evil as any time that there has ever been."

U.S. President Barack Obama outlawed the use of waterboarding by the military shortly after he took office in 2009.

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