Torture Methods and Devices

A rack in the Tower of London

The contrast shown between Guy Fawkes's signatures: the one above (a faint, shaky 'Guido') was done immediately after torture; the one below eight days later.

See also: List of torture methods and devices‎

Physical torture methods have been used from time immemorial and can range from a beating with nothing more than fist and boot, through to the use of sophisticated custom designed devices such as the rack.

Psychological torture, uses psychological means to inflict torment and is less well known because its effects are often invisible to others unless the person's behavior is significantly altered. It uses non-physical methods to induce suffering in the subject's mental, emotional, and psychological states . Since there is no international political consensus on what constitutes psychological torture, it is often overlooked, denied, and referred to in different names.

Medical torture uses psychotropic and/or other chemicals to induce pain and cause compliance with the torturer's goals. May include the forced ingestion or injection of psychotropic drugs such as neuroleptic antipsychotics to produce the agonizing condition called akathisia, (eg., phenothiazines (such as perphenazine and chlorpromazine), thioxanthenes (such as flupenthixol and zuclopenthixol) and butyrophenones (such as haloperidol (Haldol)), newer atypical antipsychotics, dimenhydrinate, R015-4513), or being forced to ingest (or be injected with) chemicals or other products (such as broken glass, heated water, or soaps) that cause pain and internal damage. Irritating chemicals or products may be inserted into the rectum or vagina, or applied on the external genitalia.

Sexually Abusive Torture uses rape and other forms of sexual abuse for interrogative or punitive purposes.

Electromagnetic Wave Torture involves the use of powerful EM Waves to beam electromagnetic radiation directly at the target such as in psychiatric holding cells in jails and prisons and is currently in use throughout the USA.

Climate Torture involves exposing the victom to frigid temperature extreames while giving the victom no blanket. Used in psychiatric holding cells in jails and prisons throughout the USA.

Discomfort Torture involves forcing the victom to sleep on a concrete slab which is oftain combined with Electromagnetic Wave Torture and Climate Torture. When being forced to sleep on a concrete slab is combined with Electromagnetic Wave Torture this will make a person feel as if they are as heavy as a lead weight on the concrete slab creating unusual torturous discomfort. During any sleep internal injuries will occur. Currently in use in psychiatric holding cells in jails and prisons throughout the USA.

Sensory Deprivation and Sleep Deprivation involves placing the victom in an almost sound proof psychiatric holding cell with white walls and powerful ultraviolet emiting flourescent lights shining on the victom 24 hours of the day depriving them of sleep combined with Electomagnetic Wave Torture, Climate Torture and Discomfort Torture. Currently in use in psychiatric holding cells in jails and prisons throughout the USA.

Torture by Tazer is used in circumstances such as a person refusing to take a psychiatric injection. Torture by Tazer occurs in psychiatric holding cells in jails and prisons throughout the USA. Psychiatry is now synonomis with the more politically correct terminology "behavioral modification".

Restraint Torture involves placing the victom within a restraint chair or restraining to a bed with one arm up and one arm down combined with electromagnetic wave torture, climate torture, and exposing the person to intense ultraviolet light emiting flourecent lights 24 hours of the day. Particularly effective when neuroleptic akathisia is induced. Restraint chairs currently in use in psychiatric holding cells in jails and prisons throughout the USA.

Medical torture

Main article: Medical torture

At times, medicine and medical practitioners have been drawn into the ranks of torturers, either to judge what victims can endure, to apply treatments which will enhance torture, or as torturers in their own right. An infamous example of the latter is Dr. Josef Mengele, known by inmates of Auschwitz as the "Angel of Death". Also in World War II, another doctor, by the name of Shiro Ishii, committed medical murder on a vastly larger scale than Dr. Mengele in his bio-weapons factory and laboratory, Unit 731.

Torture murder

Main article: Torture murder

Torture murder is a term given to the commission of torture by an individual or small group as part of a sadistic or murderous agenda. Such murderers are often serial killers, who kill their victims by slowly torturing them to death over a prolonged period of time, and is usually preceded by a kidnapping where the killer will take the victim hostage, and transport him/her to a secluded or isolated location. Criminal gangs or rebel factions performing executions by methods such as the Colombian necktie or "necklacing" with burning tires may view themselves as a de facto government acting in a role of law enforcement.