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judicial torture

DEFINITIONS OF: judicial torture

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n torture that is sanctioned by the state and executed by duly accredited officials

“the English renounced judicial torture in 1640”
Type of:
torture, torturing
the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
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