Worst cases of torture?

Question

What were some of the worst cases of torture ever documented?

Answer 1

The Spanish Inquisition.

Or read what the English did to William Wallace.  Went down pretty much like Braveheart shows it.

Answer 2

Without question, it's the case in Abu Graihb where an evil US Army member put women's panties over the head of a muslim terrorist and (I tremble at the very thought of it), they laughed at him.

Oh, how can we be so inhuman?

Answer 3

I once read accounts of things that the Roman Catholics did to Christians and anyone they suspected of Christian teachings in Germany and Europe, anytime that a priest suspected an individual with 'false' non-Catholic doctrine.

The Roman Catholic church began the inquisition in the 1400s, and the manual of how to torture confessions from you was the most published book for 2 centuries.

Answer 4

During the vietnam war they would get the prisoner and slice a tiny cut on his stomach..once he began to bleed they would get a live rat and place it into a jar..then without a lid they would place the jar on your stomach centering it on your cut..the rat would slowly eat its way into your gut..

Answer 5

In imperial Japan, they used a special type of bamboo. They tied someone to the ground, planting the bamboo seed underneath them.

It would (due to geotropism) grow up in search for sunlight and grow straight through them.

In the Vietnam war, the locals would put chopsticks in your ear and push suddenly. Excruciatingly painful and there would be a chance of your eardrums not growing back. They would also pull out your tongue with pliers. This was done if you heard of christian teachings or spoke of christian teaching respectively. It was mostly done to the christian missionaries and the children who heard them.

Also in Medieval Scandinavia, there was a man who was killed by molten gold going down his throat.

These are just off the top of my head.

Answer 6

shame