Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 19, 2009
July 19th, 2009
Today’s Gentle Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
The manacles were one of the “gentler tortures” used in 16th century Scotland. Standing on a stool, the accused was hung by the wrists against a wall, wearing iron gauntlets that could be gradually tightened as necessary; the stool was then removed, and the accused left dangling for many hours. The sadistic Richard Topcliffe, who tortured the Jesuit Father Edmund Campion more than ten times, remarked: ‘It will be as though he were dancing a trick or figure’. When Campion was tried in Westminster Hall in 1581, he was incapable of lifting his hand to plead, and two of his fellow priests had to raise it for him.
Culled from: The History Of Torture
‘Gentle tortures’ is that George H told George W?
I meant is that what George H. told George W, he should use ‘kinder and gentler interrogation techniques?
I believe that is the modern incarnation of the concept, yes.