几千年以来，人类想出很多巧妙而残忍的方法来对同类施加痛苦。这一可悲但似乎普遍的特征腐蚀着人类所追求的文明。尽管我们如今似乎对酷刑深恶痛绝，但是3000多年以来，它一直是整个欧洲和远东的大部分法律的组成部分。
《人类酷刑简史》探究了各种惩罚、酷刑、逼迫和折磨方式。它带领读者走进古罗马的竞技场、中世纪的地牢、宗教裁判所、宗教审判大会、女巫审判和ZUI残酷的监狱。这是一次令人震惊和使人信服的研究，揭露了拷打者和刽子手可耻的手段和动机，以及古往今来他们所干的令人发指的勾当。
Taking readers into the ancient Roman coliseum,the medi dungeon,the Inquisitional interrogation,the auto-da-fe,the witch-trial,and the most horrid of prisons,this is an exploration of the systematic use throughout the ages of various means of punishment,torture,coercion,and torment.It is a shocking and compelling study of the shameful methods and motives of the torturer and the executioner,and of the heinous duty they have performed through the ages.Since the earliest times it is an acknowledged fact that anyone can be made to confess to anything under torture,** such confessions inadmissible.This history of pain questions why such practices have continued for so long.
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