List of torture methods and devices
- List of torture methods and devices
A list of torture methods and devices includes:
Psychological torture methods
*Blackmail
*Shaming and public humiliation, being stripped or displayed naked, public condemnation
*Shunning
*Exploitation of phobias e.g. mock execution, leaving arachnophobes in a room full of spiders
*Being subjected to interrogation for long periods
*Extended sleep deprivation
*Extended solitary confinement
*Partial or total sensory deprivation
*Threat of permanent, severe disfigurement.
Physical torture methods
* Beatings and physical violence
* Binding / contortion
* Blinding with light
* Boiling
* Bone breaking
* Branding
* Burning
* Castration
* Choking / Strangling
* Crucifixion
* Crushing
* Cutting
* Denailing
* Disfigurement
* Drowning or Water cure see also Dry drowning
* Dunking
* Electric shock
* Flagellation
* Flaying
* Foot roasting
* Foot whipping
* Force-feeding
* Garrotting
* Genital mutilation/forced circumcision
* Glasgow smile
* Hamstringing
* Kneecapping
* Keelhauling
* Limb/finger removal
* Mancuerda
* Oxygen deprivation
* Picquet
* Pitchcapping
* Pressing
* Pressure points
* Rats
* Sexual assault
* Scalping
* Scaphism
* Sensory deprivation
* Sleep deprivation
* Sound (Extremely high volumes, dynamic range, low frequency, noise intended to interfere with rest, high pitched, cognition and concentration).
* Starvation (forced)
* Strappado / Squassation (also known as "reverse hanging" and "Palestinian hanging")
* Stress positions
* Ta'liq (torture) hanging from a metal bar.
* Tarring and feathering
* Tickle torture
* Tooth extraction
* Water boarding
* Water torture
* Whipping
Torture devices
Note that the line between "torture method" and "torture device" is often blurred, particularly when a specifically-named implement is but one component of a method. Also, many devices that can be used for torture have mainstream uses, completely unrelated to torture.
* Boot
* Brank
* Brazen bull
* Breaking wheel
* Choke pear
* Crocodile shears
* Cattle prod
* Electroshock weapon
* Foot press
* Gulag
* Heretic's fork
* Instep borer
* Iron Maiden
* Jiá gùn
* Judas Chair
* Kia quen
* Mancuerda
* Parrilla (torture)
* Pau de Arara
* Picana
* Pillory
* Rack
* Scavenger's daughter
* Scold's bridle
* Spanish boot
* Stocks
* Tablillas
* Tasers
* Tean zu
* Thumbscrew
* Tucker telephone
* Zánzhǐ
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