There were also different tortures used according to the customs of each country.
Torture was seen as a totally legitimate means for justice to extract confessions, obtain the names of accomplices, obtain testimonies or confessions.ĭifferent types of torture were used depending on the victim's crime and social status. There were no laws or rules to protect the treatment of prisoners who faced torture, such as the Iron Balls Torture. Torture methods, devices and instruments were used to inflict the deliberate, systematic, cruel and wanton infliction of physical and mental suffering. In these barbarous times the cruel and pitiless torturers were induced to inflict the horrors of tortures, including the Iron Balls Torture, on prisoners. The Medieval period of the Middle Ages was violent, and blood thirsty.
