Torture

thumb|The Last Judgment (detail), c.1431, by Fra Angelico depicting people being tormented in hell In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history sometimes depict hells as eternal, such as in some versions of Christianity and Islam, whereas religions with reincarnation usually depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations, as is the case in the Indian religions. Religions typically locate hell in another dimension or under Earth's surface. Other afterlife destin

thumb|upright=1.1|Captured Viet Cong soldier, blindfolded and tied in a [[stress position by American forces during the Vietnam War, 1967]]

thumb|A 15th-century depiction of Jesus crucified between [[the two thieves]]

thumb|270px|A 15th century Ottoman Empire|Ottoman medical illustration by [[Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin depicting an operation for castration]]

thumb| Saint Stephen, first martyr of [[Christianity, painted in 1506 by Marx Reichlich (1460–1520)(Pinakothek of Munich)]]

physiological reaction or injury caused by electric current

act of coercing or physically forcing a person to engage in sexual activity

risk taking game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against a person and pulls the trigger

execution method

use of excessive force by a police officer

thumb|250px|Rectal bulb syringe to administer smaller enemas.

former Security Prison 21, or S-21, under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

pseudoscientific or religious attempt to change sexual orientation or gender identity

method of execution

execution method used to punish high treason in medieval and early modern England

thumb|A 1901 execution at the old Manila City Jail|Bilibid Prison, [[Manila, Philippines]]

thumb|15th-century depiction of Adoni-Bezek being mutilated thumb|The Martyrdom of Hippolytus of Rome|St. Hippolytus by [[Dieric Bouts]] thumb|Aztec stone disk depicting a dismembered [[Coyolxauhqui which was found during construction in 1978 in Mexico City. Its discovery led to the excavation of the Templo Mayor.]]

thumb|upright=1.35|Karl Bodmer's 1844 [[aquatint Scalp Dance of the Minitarres depicts Siouan Hidatsa people in a scalp dance.]] Scalping is the act of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp, with hair attached, from the head, and generally occurred in warfare with the scalp being a trophy. Scalp-taking is considered part of the broader cultural practice of the taking and display of human body parts as trophies, and may have developed as an alternative to the taking of human heads, for scalps were easier to take, transport, and preserve for subsequent display. Scalping independently deve

strict form of imprisonment

a wound caused by making a cut from the corners of a victim's mouth up to the ears, leaving a scar in the shape of a smile

thumb|225px|Michelangelo's The Last Judgment - [[St Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin; it is conjectured that Michelangelo included a self-portrait depicting himself as St Bartholomew after he had been flayed alive.]]

massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974

thumb|right|upright|A suffragette is force-fed in HM Prison Holloway in the UK during [[hunger strikes for women's suffrage, approximately 1911.]] Force-feeding is the practice of feeding a human or animal against their will. The term gavage (, , ) refers to supplying a substance by means of a small plastic feeding tube passed through the nose (nasogastric) or mouth (orogastric) into the stomach.

death by the act of sawing or cutting

form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person

papal bull

thumb|A painting of Cronus emasculating Uranus, |320x320px Emasculation is the removal of the external male sex organs, which includes both the penis and the scrotum, the latter of which contains the testicles. It is distinct from castration, where only the testicles are removed. Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, the potential medical consequences of emasculation are more extensive due to the complications arising from the removal of the penis. There are a range of religious, cultural, punitive, and personal reasons why someone may choose to emasculate himself or another p

process of burning a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, into the skin of a living person

thumb|upright=1.35|The strappado, used as public punishment; detail of plate 10 of by Jacques Callot, 1633

thumb|right|Disemboweling a fish during food preparation thumb|Swine inspection by USDA of disemboweled hogs Disembowelment, disemboweling, evisceration, eviscerating or gutting is the removal of organs from the gastrointestinal tract (bowels or viscera), usually through an incision made across the abdominal area. Disembowelment is a standard routine operation during animal slaughter. In ancient Rome, disembowelment of animals was practiced for divination, and was known as haruspicy. Disembowelment of humans may result from an accident, but has also been used as a method of torture or executio

location at which an unacknowledged black project is conducted

Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tyre drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The term "necklace" originated in the mid-to-late 1980s, in the black townships of apartheid-era South Africa, where suspected apartheid collaborators were publicly executed in this fashion by uMkhonto weSizwe (MK).

Chinese persecution of the religious movement initiated by the Chinese Communist Party

state-sponsored abduction

a pit of snakes

type of physical punishment which results in complete or nearly complete loss of vision

extraction of cryptographic secrets (e.g. the password to an encrypted file) from a person by coercion or torture

ethical problem in religion in which the existence of Hell for the punishment of souls is regarded as inconsistent with the notion of a just, moral, and omnibenevolent God

execution technique

1623 massacre in Indonesia

Hurtcore, a portmanteau of the words "hardcore" and "hurt", is a name given to a particularly extreme form of child sexual assault material, usually involving degrading violence, bodily harm, and torture, typically relating to child sexual abuse. Eileen Ormsby, Australian writer and author of The Darkest Web, described hurtcore as "a fetish for people who get aroused by the infliction of pain, or even torture, on another person who is not a willing participant". An additional motivation for the perpetrator, next to their position of power over their victims, can be the reaction of their victim

acts of torture influenced or instigated by medical personnel

anti-loitering device

position that puts the human body in a great amount of pain

former British torture method in which a defendant who refused to plead is subjected to having heavy stones placed upon their chest until a plea was entered or death resulted

type of torture

Hypothetical scenario debating the justifications of torture

2009 film

phrase describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to it

room where torture is inflicted

foundation

Kneecapping is a form of malicious wounding, in which the victim is injured in the knee, often as torture. The injury is typically inflicted by a low-velocity gunshot to the back of the knee (popliteal fossa) with a handgun. The term is considered a misnomer by medical professionals, because only a very small minority of victims suffer damage to the kneecap. A review of eighty kneecapping victims found that only two had a fractured kneecap. Some victims have their elbows and ankles shot as well.

Trial of the dictators in the Greek Regime of the Colonels

2006 kidnapping, torture, and murder of a young man in France

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crimes against women committed by the Islamic State

practice of rendering a person harmless or defenseless by constraining their movement

human rights concept

confession obtained from a person under duress