The History of Torture tells the complete story of torture, from its earliest uses right up to the present day, from the tools and techniques used, to the campa

Torture has been an intrinsic part of the legal process in most cultures for centuries. Indeed, the violence we witness daily in our own society and recent reve

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For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has e