Is the Rothenburg Torture Museum appropriate for kids? We visited as a family and share exactly what you’ll see inside—and ...

The program began with leaders in the grip of an alluring idea: They could get tough in terrorist without risking legal trouble by adopting a set of methods used on Americans during military training.

Ancient Rome: Torture is thought to give more validity to the confessions of slaves and other lower-class people. 12th century: The rise of political authority and discontent with the oaths, ordeals, ...

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Some may be disturbed, others may be grossed out and a few might find it fascinating, but most visitors to this new museum in Los Angles will have a hard time forgetting all of the unbelievably cruel ...

Throughout history, rulers and regimes created torture methods designed not just to punish but to terrify entire populations into obedience. Some techniques aimed for slow, drawn-out agony; others ...

It's clear throughout history that the human mind lacks no ingenuity when it comes to thinking up hideous ways to torture or kill people. But this may be the worst in the history books. Rumoured to ...