Meaning Of Torture Research Paper
Definition of Torture
The definition of torture is the “Deliberate, systematic, cruel and wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more torturers in an attempt to force another person to give up information, to make a confession, as part of a punishment or for any other reason.” Torture devices are tools used to inflict unbearable agony on a victim. The objectives of torture were to intimidate, or punish, Or as a tool or a method for the extraction of information or confessions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL
Definition of Punishment
The definition of punishment is to “Impose or inflict something unpleasant on a person in response to disobedient or morally wrong behavior.” Punishment means to impose a penalty for a wrong committed. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL
Medieval Torture Chambers and Dungeons
The torture chambers were located in the lower parts of castles. The entrances to many torture chambers were accessed through winding …show more content…
passages which served to muffle the agonising cries of torture victims from the normal inhabitants of the castle. Torture chambers and dungeons were often very small some measured only eleven feet long by seven feet wide in which from ten to twenty prisoners were often incarcerated at the same time. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL
Medieval Torture was condemned in 1866
The barbarous custom of punishment by torture was on several occasions condemned by the Church. As early as 866, we find, from Pope Nicholas V's letter to the Bulgarians, that their custom of torturing the accused was considered contrary to divine as well as to human law: "For," says he, "a confession should be voluntary, and not forced. By means of the torture, an innocent man may suffer to the utmost without making any avowal; and, in such a case, what a crime for the judge! Or the person may be subdued by pain, and may acknowledge himself guilty, although he be not so, which throws an equally great sin upon the judge." Despite this, and other pleas, the practise of torturing victims continued. Medieval Torture was a freely accepted form of punishment and was only abolished in England in 1640. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL
--Types of Medieval Torture Devices--
Boot Or Spanish Boots
Designed to cause crushing injuries to the foot or leg. The boot has taken many forms in various places and times. This includes the Spanish boot (sometimes referred to as 'scarpines') and the Malay boot. One type was made of four pieces of narrow wooden board nailed together. The boards were measured to fit the victim's leg. Once the leg was enclosed, wedges would be hammered between the boards, creating pressure. The pressure would be increased until the victim confessed or lost consciousness. Newer variants have included iron vises sometimes armed with spikes that squeezed feet and metal frames employed red-hot. spanish_boota.jpg
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Branding Iron
process in which a mark, usually a symbol or pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention that the resulting scar makes it permanent.
This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron. uses the physical techniques of livestock branding on a human as a punishment or to identify an enslaved or otherwise oppressed person.
guillotine
Considered the most “humane” way of execution, the guillotine was a tall, upright frame in which a heavy angled blade is raised to the top and suspended. The victim is laid on a wooden base face down where there head is fit into a curve, fit for the neck. Whoever is in charge of the executions then pulls a rope, the blade is released and quickly falls down and chops the victim's head clean off. A basket was placed below to catch the victim's head.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL
The definition of torture is the “Deliberate, systematic, cruel and wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more torturers in an attempt to force another person to give up information, to make a confession, as part of a punishment or for any other reason.” Torture devices are tools used to inflict unbearable agony on a victim. The objectives of torture were to intimidate, or punish, Or as a tool or a method for the extraction of information or confessions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL
Definition of Punishment
The definition of punishment is to “Impose or inflict something unpleasant on a person in response to disobedient or morally wrong behavior.” Punishment means to impose a penalty for a wrong committed. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL
Medieval Torture Chambers and Dungeons
The torture chambers were located in the lower parts of castles. The entrances to many torture chambers were accessed through winding …show more content…
passages which served to muffle the agonising cries of torture victims from the normal inhabitants of the castle. Torture chambers and dungeons were often very small some measured only eleven feet long by seven feet wide in which from ten to twenty prisoners were often incarcerated at the same time. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL
Medieval Torture was condemned in 1866
The barbarous custom of punishment by torture was on several occasions condemned by the Church. As early as 866, we find, from Pope Nicholas V's letter to the Bulgarians, that their custom of torturing the accused was considered contrary to divine as well as to human law: "For," says he, "a confession should be voluntary, and not forced. By means of the torture, an innocent man may suffer to the utmost without making any avowal; and, in such a case, what a crime for the judge! Or the person may be subdued by pain, and may acknowledge himself guilty, although he be not so, which throws an equally great sin upon the judge." Despite this, and other pleas, the practise of torturing victims continued. Medieval Torture was a freely accepted form of punishment and was only abolished in England in 1640. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL
--Types of Medieval Torture Devices--
Boot Or Spanish Boots
Designed to cause crushing injuries to the foot or leg. The boot has taken many forms in various places and times. This includes the Spanish boot (sometimes referred to as 'scarpines') and the Malay boot. One type was made of four pieces of narrow wooden board nailed together. The boards were measured to fit the victim's leg. Once the leg was enclosed, wedges would be hammered between the boards, creating pressure. The pressure would be increased until the victim confessed or lost consciousness. Newer variants have included iron vises sometimes armed with spikes that squeezed feet and metal frames employed red-hot. spanish_boota.jpg
“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_(torture)” URL
Branding Iron
process in which a mark, usually a symbol or pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention that the resulting scar makes it permanent.
This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron. uses the physical techniques of livestock branding on a human as a punishment or to identify an enslaved or otherwise oppressed person.
guillotine
Considered the most “humane” way of execution, the guillotine was a tall, upright frame in which a heavy angled blade is raised to the top and suspended. The victim is laid on a wooden base face down where there head is fit into a curve, fit for the neck. Whoever is in charge of the executions then pulls a rope, the blade is released and quickly falls down and chops the victim's head clean off. A basket was placed below to catch the victim's head.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/WikipediaevengneURL