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
noun
the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross
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