torture

Presents the history of torture dating back 3,000 years, the various types of torture used, and the efforts of Amnesty International to achieve a worldwide ban on torture today.

A man and his girlfriend are on the way to a secluded farm when their trip takes an unexpected detour, and she is left wondering how to escape.

Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor.

The history of punishing criminals is a long and gruesome one. In 620 BC, a Greek named Draco wrote a legal code that punished almost every crime with death, except murder! For that, criminals were exiled. Odd facts about crime and punishment like this abound in history.

Shares information on the history of torture and its current use today, including whether it is an effective way to root out information about terrorism.

An account of the use of torture by the United States intelligence service, its legalization under Bush, and the damage caused to morality, law, and the future of the United States by Obama's granting impunity to the torturers.

Discusses the use of sound as a weapon, relating how non-lethal sonic weapons have been used as torture and crowd control.

Pt. 1. The Mechanism. 1. Solzhenitsyn and the Creation of the Gulag. 2. The Nazi Camp System. 3. Henri Alleg and Colonialism in Algeria. 4. The British in Ireland. 5. The Apartheid System in South Africa -- Pt. 2. The Imagination. 6. Photography: The Experience of Shock. 7. Closet Land: State and Sexual Authority. 8. The Extreme Experience of Solitude: Aurobindo, Ngugi, Nien Cheng -- Pt. 3. Recent Politics of Cruelty in Action. 9. The Little School: Argentina and Brazil. 10. The Death of a Guatemalan Village. El Salvador. 11. State Torture and Religion. The Torture of Children. 12. Conclusion.

The medieval world had a variety of ways of dealing with crime, sorcery, and other instances of breaking society’s rules. Few of them were pleasant in any way. Indeed, many of these responses were embarrassing or painful for those being punished, and quite a few involved outright torture or even death.