Torture Devices Modern Marvels : Season 10 Episode 25
TV-PG History 1h 00m int(0)
Aired: July 21st, 2004 @ 10:00 PM EST on History
For more than 3,000 years, emperors and generals, dictators and police, criminals, clerics, and even medical doctors have created and used a vast array of torture devices--everything from the ancient Greeks' Brazen Bull, which slowly barbecued the victim, to the elaborate mechanical apparatuses of the Spanish Inquisition. A medical doctor who specializes in victims of torture reveals how the human body responds to their use--from the earliest excruciating contrivances to the more modern.