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TORTURE, punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their associates.
2. This absurd and tyrannical practice never was in use in the United States; for no man is bound to accuse himself. An attempt to torture a person accused of crime, in order to extort a confession, is an indictable offence. 2 Tyler, 380. Vide Question.

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Worthy of note is that the perpetrators of state torture as documented by victims of torture [4] have been largely NIF supporters who, for the most part, included security officers indoctrinated with the NIF anti-Islamic, anti-ethical, and anti-democratic thought.

SOLVING THE CRISIS OF SUDAN: THE RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION VERSUS ... by El-Tigani, Mahgoub / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)

Margaret Randall was the only initial participant who, in her vigorous elaboration of shared territory between state torture and domestic abuse in the politics of memory, refused this arbitrary drawing of terrorism's boundaries.

The Politics of Everyday Fear by Goodeve, Thyrza Nichols / Artforum International

Since 1914, state torture and persecution have returned on a far larger scale than the old optimistic liberalism would have believed possible.

Liberalism and the Moral Life by Sobran, Joseph / National Review

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