Torture is the demonstration of intentionally causing physical or mental pain in order to achieve the goal of satisfying some want of the torturer or to punish the guilty. In the United States about 25% of Americans believed that torture is “often” justified while another 38% is being “sometimes” justified. Only 15% said it should never be used. Today, I will inform you about torture devices as well as strategies used throughout centuries and if they are still practice today. Torture devices were designed to deliver an abundant of pain throughout various creative ways. Torture strategies were also barbarous actions that cause severe mental or physical pain. Torture mechanisms are illegal in the United States yet, it is still practiced under
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Most torture strategies can cause severe mental or physical pain. Sleep deprivation was used as an interrogating technique in which the victims were kept awake for several days standing or with hands retrained above their heads until the victims were forced to tell the truth or even lie to make the pain stop. According to United States Senate Committee on the interrogation program reported that “the most enhanced interrogation technique used in this program is sleep deprivation.” This means that this technique was the most popular for the government in order to achieve accurate information from the criminals. Furthermore, Pharmacological torture is the use of drugs to torture and retrieve information from the victim. In this torture strategy the victim is given an addictive drug every day, then once the victim becomes addicted they’ll stop giving them the drug and only give it back to them if they confess. This strategy is the most barbarous out of all, it causes physical and mental pain. Another strategy was rat torture, this was when the victim is placed on a table naked while a bucket filled with infectious deceased rats is placed over the chest, genitals or stomach. The container was then heated up causing the rats to panic and chew though the victim’s body to escape. As you can see all these methods were thought out creatively and were designed for misery whether guilty or
Most torture strategies can cause severe mental or physical pain. Sleep deprivation was used as an interrogating technique in which the victims were kept awake for several days standing or with hands retrained above their heads until the victims were forced to tell the truth or even lie to make the pain stop. According to United States Senate Committee on the interrogation program reported that “the most enhanced interrogation technique used in this program is sleep deprivation.” This means that this technique was the most popular for the government in order to achieve accurate information from the criminals. Furthermore, Pharmacological torture is the use of drugs to torture and retrieve information from the victim. In this torture strategy the victim is given an addictive drug every day, then once the victim becomes addicted they’ll stop giving them the drug and only give it back to them if they confess. This strategy is the most barbarous out of all, it causes physical and mental pain. Another strategy was rat torture, this was when the victim is placed on a table naked while a bucket filled with infectious deceased rats is placed over the chest, genitals or stomach. The container was then heated up causing the rats to panic and chew though the victim’s body to escape. As you can see all these methods were thought out creatively and were designed for misery whether guilty or