The prisoner was ordered to curl himself up into a ball. Pieces of iron were placed around him/her. The irons were tightened with a screw. Either the prisoner owned up to the crime... or his back was broken! http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_images/0708/0000/0384/100_9245b_mid.jpg or http://www.duhaime.org/Portals/duhaime/PropertyAgent/3064/Images/20.jpg It was named after its inventor Leonard Skeffington. He was in charge of torture weapons for Henry VIII
A victim of torture.
sexual torture to Jewish woman by Nazi
No. Torture is never ethical, regardless of the reason.
The Geneva convention prohibits torture of POWs.
If it's torture waiting for the answer then yes. If not, then check out amnesty.org To an extent, it's a matter of definition, but, alas, yes, torture is still widely used.
Curling irons, straightening irons, and crimpers are some. You can also use real irons, but people only did that before straightening irons were invented.
Max Irons ,son of Jeremy Irons, was 16 in 2001
Gerald Irons's birth name is Gerald Dwayne Irons.
Janine Irons's birth name is Janine Mireille Irons.
Jeremy Irons's birth name is Jeremy John Irons.
Andy Irons's birth name is Philip Andrew Irons.
Max Irons's birth name is Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons.
Samuel Irons's birth name is Samuel James Brefni Irons.
Kenny Irons is out forever
Torture = Tormentum (noun) Torture = Torquere (verb, 'to torture')
Paulette Irons was born in 1952.
Frank Irons was born in 1886.