It took the US 18 years to realize that confessions obtained under torture are null and void?

18 years that the men was fighting for his life as they wanted to murder him based on that charge. This sham has been ongoing through the presidencies of Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden and now Trump again. If the US is ever to become a nation of basic human and civil rights for all and rule of law it needs to be reworked from the ground up.