A list of torture methods and devices includes:
Psychological torture methods[]
- Blackmail
- Shaming and public humiliation, being stripped or displayed naked, public condemnation
- Shunning
- Exploitation of phobias e.g. mock execution, leaving arachnophobes in a room full of spiders
- Being subjected to interrogation for long periods
- Extended sleep deprivation
- Extended solitary confinement
- Partial or total sensory deprivation
- Threat of permanent, severe disfigurement.
Physical torture methods[]
- Beatings and physical violence
- Binding / contortion
- Blinding with light
- Boiling
- Bone breaking
- Branding
- Burning
- Castration
- Choking / Strangling
- Crucifixion
- Crushing
- Cutting
- Denailing
- Disfigurement
- Drowning or Water cure see also Dry drowning
- Dunking
- Electric shock
- Flagellation
- Flamethrower torture
- Flaying
- Foot roasting
- Foot whipping
- Force-feeding
- Garrotting
- Genital mutilation/forced circumcision
- Glasgow smile
- Hamstringing
- Hanging, drawing and quartering
- Impaling
- Kneecapping
- Keelhauling
- Limb/finger removal
- Mancuerda
- Oxygen deprivation
- Picquet
- Pitchcapping
- Pressing
- Pressure points
- Rats
- Sexual assault
- Scalping
- Scaphism
- Sensory deprivation
- Sleep deprivation
- Sound (Extremely high volumes, dynamic range, low frequency, noise intended to interfere with rest, high pitched, cognition and concentration).
- Starvation (forced)
- Strappado / Squassation (also known as "reverse hanging" and "Palestinian hanging")
- Stress positions
- Ta'liq (torture) hanging from a metal bar.
- Tarring and feathering
- Tickle torture
- Tooth extraction
- Water boarding
- Water torture
- Whipping
Torture devices[]
Note that the line between "torture method" and "torture device" is often blurred, particularly when a specifically-named implement is but one component of a method. Also, many devices that can be used for torture have mainstream uses, completely unrelated to torture.
- Boot
- Brank
- Brazen bull
- Breaking wheel
- Choke pear
- Crocodile shears
- Cattle prod
- Electroshock weapon
- Foot press
- Heretic's fork
- Instep borer
- Iron Maiden
- Jiá gùn
- Judas Chair
- Kia quen
- Mancuerda
- Parrilla (torture)
- Pau de Arara
- Picana
- Pillory
- Rack
- Scavenger's daughter
- Scold's bridle
- Spanish boot
- Stocks
- Tablillas
- Tasers
- Tean zu
- Thumbscrew
- Tucker telephone
- Zánzhǐ
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