Human torture concepts from the past and perhaps even the present are outlined below.
Human torture has a long history.
"Torture has been used for at least 2,000 years and has been widespread. It was part of the legal process in both ancient Greece and Rome. Early Greek and Roman laws specified that only slaves might be tortured, but after freemen could be tortured in cases of treason. It was the right of a master to offer his slaves for torture in order to prove his own innocence or to discipline them. The right to torture slaves was abolished in Roman law in AD 240. In the Middle Ages, torture was included in proceedings of the Catholic Inquisition. In colonial America, "witches" were tortured by dunking and other punishments to prove their guilt or make them recant their beliefs." (3)