Instruments of torture
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Confessions under torture in witch trials: records describing impossible crimes
Rendition flights and accountability: why prosecutions stalled in European courts
Enhanced interrogation after 9/11: the legal memos and how they were withdrawn
The ticking time bomb scenario: the thought experiment that keeps failing empirically
Frederick the Great abolished torture in 1740: the order and the loopholes left open
Beccaria argued against torture and it took a century for courts to listen
Doctors and psychologists at interrogations: dual loyalty and professional sanctions
Nuremberg and Tokyo: when was torture first prosecuted as a war crime
Guantanamo after two decades: the medical and legal record
Roman quaestio and Greek basanos: torture as evidence law in antiquity
Abolition timelines: which states ended judicial torture first and which kept it longest
Survivors of torture: what rehabilitation research says about memory and chronic pain
Why some museums pulled torture instruments from display and what replaced the labels
Judicial torture was ordinary court procedure in medieval Europe before abolition
Does torture produce reliable information? Evidence from declassified interrogation research
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