Going by the title of this paper you are probably asking yourself “How in God’s name can torture be seen as an art, were these people mentally ill?” well it was, but I talk about that later, let me tell you a little about the history of torture. Torture has been around since the times of Ancient Greece and is still around today, usually in the Mafia. Other than the mob, torture isn’t …showed first 75 words of 1880 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1880 total…spend years in, torture was a fast and effective way of showing a criminal to never ever break the law again. “Torture, one of the few legal systems that worked”. B I B L I O G R A P H Y The Gullotine and the Terror, Arasse, Daniel.1987 Penguin Press. The Executioner's Homepage, http://www.luh.K12.ca.us/%7Ebg659808/torture.html and ID Software at http://www.idsoftware.com, for the cool picture.