Editing Torture (section)

===Interrogation===
{{main|Interrogational torture}}
[[File:Waterboarding a captured North Vietnamese soldier near Da Nang.jpeg|thumb|Two United States soldiers and one [[South Vietnam]]ese soldier [[Waterboarding|waterboard]] a captured [[North Vietnam]]ese prisoner of war near [[Da Nang]], 1968.]]

The use of torture to obtain information during interrogation accounts for a small percentage of worldwide torture cases; its use for obtaining confessions or intimidation is more common.{{sfn|Rejali|2020|p=92}} Although interrogational torture has been used in [[conventional war]]s, it is even more common in [[asymmetric war]] or civil wars.{{sfn|Hajjar|2013|p=22}} The [[ticking time bomb scenario]] is extremely rare, if not impossible,{{sfn|Carver|Handley|2016|p=36}}{{sfn|Hajjar|2013|p=4}} but is cited to justify torture for interrogation. [[Torture in popular culture|Fictional portrayals of torture]] as an effective interrogational method have fueled misconceptions that justify the use of torture.{{sfn|Rejali|2020|pp=92–93, 106}} Experiments comparing torture with other interrogation methods cannot be performed for ethical and practical reasons,{{sfn|Houck|Repke|2017|pp=277–278}}{{sfn|Hassner|2020|p=24}}{{sfn|Einolf|2022|p=2}} but most scholars of torture are skeptical about its efficacy in obtaining accurate information, although torture sometimes has obtained actionable intelligence.{{sfn|Einolf|2022|p=3}}{{sfn|Rejali|2020|p=71}} Interrogational torture can often shade into confessional torture or simply into entertainment,{{sfn|Hassner|2020|pp=16, 20}} and some torturers do not distinguish between interrogation and confession.{{sfn|Einolf|2022|p=2}}