UN declares that tasers are a form of torture

The story is not as strong as the title sounds actually. When tasers were first introduced, they made sense, in using nonlethal force to disarm a violent criminal. As law enforcement grows accustomed to the weapon, they are now obviously using them haphazardly, against anyone who resists, physically or merely verbally. Tasers incapacitate through administration of extreme pain. That is a classic definition of torture.

I'm eager to see the use of tasers being more stringently regulated. Banning them altogether is not necessary, as guns will probably always be around. However, most of the tasers stories that i read lately have police using tasers essentially as cattle prods in ordinary disturbances, not ones in which anyone's life is in danger.