7 sentences with “torture”

The Inquisition had the right to subject people to interrogation and torture and, in extreme cases, to execute them.

Under ancient Roman law the rich were protected from torture and painful executions, while the poor were subject to both.

The judges of the Star Court were royal officials appointed by Henry, and regularly used torture to extract confessions from the accused.

Infamously, the French army almost immediately resorted to a systematic campaign of torture against captured rebels and those suspected of having information that might help the French.

Several monarchs in the latter part of the 18th century did, in fact, prohibit torture in their kingdoms, and "rationalised" justice systems evolved slowly in many kingdoms during this period.

Typically, Stalin's agents used torture to force hapless victims to confess to bizarre charges such as conspiring with Germany or (later) the United States to bring down the Soviet Union from within.

Just as torture came to be seen by almost all Enlightenment thinkers as not only cruel, but archaic and irrational, so slavery went from being an unquestioned economic necessity to a repugnant form of continuing injustice.