| 1 | He would eventually confess to the murders under the threat of torture. | |
| 2 | To sum up, only when strict punishment can be imposed on the lawless, can social stability be maintained. | |
| 3 | But equally important, I think, is that our mass culture is filled with wildly misleading ideas about how torture works. | |
| 4 | The torture of a criminal during the course of his trial is a cruelty consecrated by custom in most nations. | |
| 5 | These truths were known to the Roman legislators, amongst whom, as I have already observed, slaves only, who were not considered as citizens, were tortured. |