Torture

Torture is the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain or grief as an expression of cruelty, a means of intimidation, deterrent, revenge or punishment, or as a tool for the extraction of information or confessions.

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• {{note|ccel}} History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073. Chapter VI. Morals And Religion: Page 80:The Torture by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
• {{note|tiscali}} Hutchinson's Encyclopaedia: Torture
• {{note|nyt_2004_05_23}}New York Times, Sunday, May 23, 2004 This link needs fixing. See the references in this link. This could be one of two articles.
• * Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Torture of Others: Notes on what has been done ? and why ? to prisoners, by Americans," New York Times Magazine, Sunday, May 23, 2004, 24-29, 42.alternative source
• * Adam Hochschild, "What?s in a Word? Torture" New York Times, Sunday, May 23, 2004, Week in Review. May 23 may go down as the day on which a number of commentators finally faced up to the practice of torture ? on 60 Minutes the same evening, Andy Rooney echoed both Sontag and Hochschild. alternative source
• {{note|telegraph_2004_10_23}} The envoy silenced after telling undiplomatic truths, The Daily Telegraph 23 October 2004
• {{note|stimes_2005_03_20}} as reported in the Sunday Times on 20 March 2005
• {{note|newyorker_2005_02_14}} Q & A: Torture by Proxy Jane Mayer answers question asked by Amy Davidson The New Yorker on 14 February 2005

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