humourous but suitable question
 

Seeing as this is a horror site and torture/execution being associated with gothic horror (Poe) and the SAW films I thought I'd post a hypothetical question:-;););)

If you were going to torture somebody. How would you do it?
I reckon that THE worst method of torture/punishment is to publicly name and shame them (the more 'respectable' and how much standing they've got in the community the better) by having their portrait, name, offence and punishment put in the local newspapers or on walls in public spaces.:D
OR:-
A hot clothes iron slammed into the bollocks after they've had cooking oil poured on them/smeared with lard or butter.

I'm a big fan of impalement

A slap on the wrist. But not too hard.

I'd "humoous" them to death.

this is also a really good idea.

http://www.listaholic.com/wp-content...008/12/saw.jpg

the victim would stay conscious a little bit longer because they are upside down. I wouldn't want my victim passing out from the pain soon after I had started torturing them, if they are going to be passing out, I want it to be from screaming all the air our of their lungs. :)

The corpses are smiling, how bad can it be.

that's the humoous part.

This person sounds vaguely familiar...like a poster some time back that was very obsessed with mentions of torturous acts.

anywho...

I would let the 'person' starve for some days to loosen the skin and then skin them...strip the muscles one by one slowly, making sure at this point the 'person' gets enough food/water/rest so they won't die quickly.
Then I would really like the disembowelment scene in The Cell to be recreated
and also the castration scene from Hard Candy but without the anesthesia.

If the 'person' didn't die from shock, small incisions to let them bleed out slowly...making their death excruciating with lots of "kill me, kill me now!!" begging and such things...

yeah, that could be considered a torutured death I think

I'd take any of these deaths over dying at the hands of someone with a pair of pliars and some form of make- shift testicle clamp...

Never seen The Cell or Hard Candy and I only joined on 2-4-10. But I take it you're a fan of SAW?

That guy on the right looks like he's smoked a joint before going to work that day.

This picture or one similar was actually banned in an English school recently for being too upsetting for kids.

You're right. Anyway, I've heard there's a fourth evil dead in the pipeline.
Know anything about it, anybody?

Make them watch The Village over and over again and repeat "It's a horror movie, it's a horror movie, it's a horror movie..."

You could always tie up and lay someone a couple inches over some bamboo sliced at a very broad angle. That is after you've ripped out there finger and toenails with rusty pliers.

I'd read them the entire Twilight Saga while putting sticking a hot cocktail fork into them every few minutes.

This part alone is just cruel and inhumane. Don't torture them with the rest.

Not so sure.
I think the poking of hot forks would be a sort of comfort whilst being read to

In the words of Alex from A Clockwork Orange "IT'S A SIN! IT'S A SIN!"

disembowelment Hanibal Lecter style would be pretty amusing, but anyone could do it that way. It would have to employ some form of cauterization so they wouldnt bleed out, and of course their own genetalia. hell maybe even your own.Or it could be something simple like running them through an old cotton gin. Then again broken bones are excruciatingly painfull and wont kill..... Hey, come to think of it I have some work I need done at my house, if anyone is interested in making a little extra cash on the side let me know.

Depending on how 'respectable' they claim to be naming and shaming is one of the WORST punishments I could think of or you could always sentence somebody to gassing but not tell them when and put them in a room and never let them see another person again with no contact with the outside world. But their room has a hole to let the gas in and the worst thing is, they don't know WHEN it's going to happen or as I put in a bit of fiction i'm working on...
Put them beneath the pendulum but give the pendulum a CHAINSAW blade and set them both in motion (but in the tae I'm working on, the poor bastard justs gets left there) with a chainsaw/pendulum in motion....
But:-
do you talk first?
Go mad or....

Has no one mentioned torturing the subjects' loved ones? Works great mixed with some humiliation.

The Chinese have something similar in which the family of somebody condemned to death by shooting (bullet through the head) HAVE to pay for the bullet themselves. But (I'm being hypothetical here and this bears no resemblence to anybody alive) just picture the scene can't you? Mister Jackson, a nice respectable family man, christian, Area manager for a bank/president of the local golf club, coaches the local youth team, volunteers for the scouts, goes round in a suit all the time gets exposed as a Paedophile/gets caught with a prostitute and has his porttrait, name, offence and punishment put in the newspapers or the walls of public places and how can he face his friends and neighbours as a result?

Well, Mr. Grand Inquisitor, I would have to guess the person in question would have to move, maybe to some place sunny and warm, and change his name. Which is why when dealing with pedophiles, I still firmly believe the offended and all who love them should be given five minutes alone with the perpetrator. You can't run away from the fact that your Grandmother or first born was force fed their own fingers because of some crime you committed. You also can't run away from being beaten to death or crippled by an angry mob.

However, when strictly speaking of torturing a person, public humiliation is only a small part of an extensive field. Pick up any book of torture, and you're certain to read of public executions and torments. To torture someone in secret or in a dungeon is almost wasteful when done by a governing body.

I think pedophiles should be hypnotically regressed to the age of 7, then raped. Daily.

What a job that would be. Dude would be a hit with the ladies... "So what do you do for a living?".

There's nothing humoous about a lack of spelling skills.


But I'm a fan of being torn apart by horses...

The CIA torture of waterboarding's nothing new. Its just a variation of a similar methond in which the victim was tied down to a table with a flannel over their face and water poured onto it so the flannel entered their mouth to make them feel as if they were drowning. Over hear in the UK we have a phrase 'give somebody a grilling' which comes from the old torture of tying somebody down to an Iron gril and lying it over a fire and then questioning them and to be 'in hot water' means to be in trouble and comes from the execution method of boiling people alive but here's a few books for reference if you want to go into it further:-

A History of Torture* by George Ryley Scott
Rack, Rope and Red Hot Pincers*
The Book of Execution*
Severed Heads*
* by Charles Geoffery Abbot, a former beefeater at The Tower of London.
My interest in Torture is entirely for fictional use and research purposes only (honest).
Thanks for the input.

I'd pull their finger/toenails off and sandpaper under there.
I'd periodically hammer nails into their non-vital areas and put a stungun to the nails. I'd cut them with scalpels between all the fingers and toes, and remove the nipples that way. I would then apply bi-carb to the wounds, followed by a mixture of caustic soda in vinegar.
I'd probably douse them in something like hair spray/mousse, something that would burn off quickly but not too quickly and set it on fire.
I'd then put a gas mask onto them with stink bugs in it one time, ammonia the next, allowing fresh air for 1/3 of the time.
Perhaps, I'd insert a large acupuncture needle into their eye, and leave it there.
Every time they made a sound, I'd kick them in the balls.
I'd break and re-break their nose again and again. punching would do.
I'd record their cries, and play it back to them all the while, and feed them only on their own excrement.

Sounds more like you're fixing something to eat.

I would have the person restrained so that they couldn't move. Next I'd cut out their tounge, making them lose their last means of communication, and preventing them from biting it off and killing themselves. Then I would place a pair of headphones on their head, playing a loud, fluxuating, screeching noise, and never take that off of them. After that I would strip them naked, and with a scapel, make as many cuts as I can on the surface of their skin, not too deep, just enough to cut them, but not deep enough to make them bleed to death. I would then take the roughest sandpaper that I could find and give them a good sanding so that their skin was as raw as I could get it. I'd then take boiling salt water(which happens to boil at a higher temperature than regular water) and dowse their body in it, repeating this process over and over(the cutting and sanding also) until they died.

Nah, straight kills for eating - this would be for fun/revenge.

Just throwin' it out there, but sugar syrup is something you probably wanna look into...

What does sugar syrup feel like in a cut? Or do you just mean scolding hot sugar syrup?

Give them five hits of acid, chop off their arms and legs, spray them with babboon pheromones and toss 'em in the cage.

Might not have the initial sting of salt, but it can pretty much keep getting hotter on it's own after a point, and won't cool down anytime quick. maybe seal in some caustic soda with it? that should cover both factors...or hell, finely ground black pepper, and salt, chilli powder, covered in boiling sugar syrup, there's a nice recipe there.