Woodling was one of the most notorious torture methods used by pirates. What did it involve and when was it used? What made ...

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Ancient Rome: Torture is thought to give more validity to the confessions of slaves and other lower-class people. 12th century: The rise of political authority and discontent with the oaths, ordeals, ...

Some may be disturbed, others may be grossed out and a few might find it fascinating, but most visitors to this new museum in Los Angles will have a hard time forgetting all of the unbelievably cruel ...

Throughout history, rulers and regimes created torture methods designed not just to punish but to terrify entire populations into obedience. Some techniques aimed for slow, drawn-out agony; others ...

Europeans were creative when it came to torture. They developed some of the most excruciating and slowest methods of torture in history, including the horrific blood eagle torture method. But one of ...

It's clear throughout history that the human mind lacks no ingenuity when it comes to thinking up hideous ways to torture or kill people. But this may be the worst in the history books. Rumoured to ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Houshang Asadi is an equal opportunity torture victim. He was tortured under the Shah and tortured again after Iran's Islamic Revolution. He still feels the pain, every night. Now ...